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Slava Knyazev
slava@knyazev.io | github.com/vezaynk | bbss.dev
About Me
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Slava Knyazev has deep expertise in web technologies, having done design work for top tech companies such as Amazon and Airbnb. He brings with himself best practices learned the hard way and insights into designing robust and maintainable software.
- Writer of technical blog with over 200k readers
- Made open-source contributions to dozens of projects
- Ranked top 3% of StackOverflow for JavaScript
- Highly proficient at all levels of the stack
Work Experience
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Score Media and Gaming
Senior Software Developer| June, 2023 — PresentBuilding Penn's retail sports-betting platform from greenfield to production.
- Introduced and promoted React development best practices
- Made significant system design contributions
- Improved reliability and observability of the product
- Implemented key product features
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Amazon Web Services
Front-End Engineer II| June, 2022 — June, 2023Delivering features improving Kubernetes cluster observability, management, and developer experience as part of the AWS EKS Console team.
- Hosted advanced React training sessions
- Lead transition to TypeScript
- Contributed to external open-source libraries in order to solve internal challenges
- Assessed customer impact from operational faults and investigated root causes
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Capgemini Engineering
Senior Software Engineer| Jan, 2021 — June, 2022Assisted Airbnb in delivering high priority features on time.
- Created an internal applications using React and GraphQL
- Contributed components to shared internal libraries
- Developed utility to decode partial Apache Thrift objects
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Bitovi
React Consultant| Oct, 2020 — Dec, 2020Worked as a Remote, Independent Contractor for Bitovi's clients.
- Contributed to large React projects
- Authored React training materials
- Designed and deployed AWS Lambda micro-services
- Optimized CI/CD pipeline processes
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ChannelAssist
Full-Stack Software Developer| May, 2020 — September, 2020Enhanced and automated reporting services using SQL Server and .NET Core.
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Public Health Agency of Canada
Full-Stack Software Developer| May, 2018 — July, 2020Worked on the Infobase team to standardize systems, automate complex processes, create developer tooling, develop interactive and accessible visualizations.
- Automated normalization of non-standardized data, reducing months of work to minutes
- Developed data-driven front-end with React, D3.js and TypeScript
- Implemented live code generation, compilation and reloading in .NET Core
Education
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CEGEP Heritage College
Computer Science Undergraduate Diploma| Aug, 2017 — May 2020
Projects
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Building Better Software Slower
Technical blogSharing my technicals insights and deep dives into topics I haven't found elsewhere. It has been read by over 200k readers and is a regular feature on well-regarded newsletters such as This Week in React, JavaScript Weekly, and Bytes.
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Resource Pooler
Open-source libraryDesigned a minimal, lock-free library for managing shared access to resources.
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NGINX + Pagespeed
Open-source projectAutomated building Debian-flavoured NGINX from source with PageSpeed module