Slava Knyazev

Delivering web security, marketing, and analytics work across high-traffic sites.

• Investigated and fixed Content Security Policy issues, tightening policy across all sites
• Built marketing page templates in Next.js and Contentful
• Developed Superset dashboards to answer conversion questions

Improving front-end architecture and developing core product using React, TypeScript, and Go.

• Refactored front-end architecture with team buy-in
• Investigated and identified fixes for open-source dependencies
• Expanded end-to-end test coverage

Building retail sports betting platform from greenfield to production using React, GraphQL, TypeScript.

• Led development of the Over-The-Counter patron betting experience
• Promoted the use of defensive programming in critical transaction workflows
• Pitched and led a migration from Percy to Happo, cutting visual-regression tooling costs by an order of magnitude

Delivering features improving Kubernetes cluster observability, management, and developer experience as part of the AWS EKS Console team. Main technologies included JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS Lambda.

• Led the systematic transition to TypeScript for ~100k lines of code
• Contributed to external open-source libraries to solve internal challenges
• Assessed customer impact from operational faults and investigated root causes

Developed internal developer tooling and marketing software within Airbnb using React, GraphQL, Kotlin.

Shipped full-stack React + Node.js Lambda solution for managed PPP loan forgiveness applications.

Developed accessible and highly interactive data visualizations using D3.js, React.js, and .NET Core.

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Designed a minimal, lock-free library for managing shared access to resources.