Slava Knyazev

Slava Knyazev has deep expertise in React, 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 React applications.

• Top 3% of StackOverflow for JavaScript and top 10% overall
• Author of npm library with over 200k weekly downloads
• Active open-source contributor to multiple projects
• Highly proficient in back-end development

Delivering features improving Kubernetes cluster observability, management, and developer experience as part of the AWS EKS Console team.

• Designed type-safe helper layer for React-Query
• 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

Assisted Airbnb in delivering high priority features on time.

• Participated in Agile sprint cycles & daily scrums
• Created an internal applications using React and GraphQL
• Contributed components to shared internal libraries
• Developed utility to decode partial Apache Thrift objects

Worked 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

Enhanced and automated reporting services using SQL Server and .NET Core.

Worked 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

Automated patching of NGINX for improved performance using GitHub Actions, distributed as a Debian package.

Improved drop-in replacement for abandoned Storybook dependency, with 200,000+ weekly downloads (mostly as part of Storybook). Identifies if a given host/port is bindable.