Slava Knyazev

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.

Building Penn's retail sports betting platform from greenfield to production using React, GraphQL, and TypeScript.

• Led development of the Over-The-Counter patron betting experience
• Established standards for developing reusable components between projects
• Promoted the use of defensive programming in critical transaction workflows
• Introduced a complete observability model for the product

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 for Airbnb using React, GraphQL, and Kotlin.

• Developed UI for a greenfield e-mail marketing software project
• Created utility to decode partial Apache Thrift objects from scratch
• Contributed to tax validation software by introducing support for new countries

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

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

Developed accessible and highly interactive data visualizations using D3.js and React.js, and built back-ends using .NET Core and Entity Framework.

Sharing my technical insights and deep dives into topics I haven't found elsewhere. It has been read by over 200k readers and is a regular feature in well-regarded newsletters such as This Week in React, JavaScript Weekly, and Bytes.

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

Automated building Debian-flavoured NGINX from source with PageSpeed module