Akbar Abdrakhmanov
Product Engineer at Clarity
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Summary
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Top SchoolAkbar Abdrakhmanov is a Product Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading frontend-first teams across fintech and SaaS, currently based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership, having moved from senior frontend roles into team lead and engineering manager positions at companies like Athenian and Canonical. His open-source contributions include UX-focused fixes to Mattermost and Vue Storefront projects, reflecting a pragmatic eye for accessibility, layout polish, and resilient backend migrations for e-commerce data flows. He is comfortable across the stack—Vue.js frontends, Elasticsearch-backed APIs, and payment/tax integrations—and often moves between UI refinements and backend robustness work. Trained with a Master of Applied Science in Software Engineering from McMaster, Akbar blends formal engineering rigor with practical product sensibility. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented implementer who elevates user experience while keeping long-term maintainability in view.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science, Software Engineering, Master of Applied Science, Software Engineering at McMaster UniversitySpecialist engineer, Organization and Technology of Information Security, Specialist engineer, Organization and Technology of Information Security at Satbayev UniversityBachelor, Finance, Bachelor, Finance at Narxoz University
English, Russian, Kazakh
Github Skills (32)
apim10
javascript10
api-design10
ecommerce10
amazon-elasticsearch10
typescript10
magento10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
front-end-development10
vue-storefront10
vue10
typescript-types10
elasticsearch10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vuestorefront/vue-storefront-api
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Vue.js storefront for Magento2 (and not only) - data backend
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 9 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Akbar focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the Vue Storefront API's backend. Their contributions primarily involved developing and refactoring migration scripts for Elasticsearch, handling data transformations, and resolving timeout issues within the API's core functionalities. They also worked on integrating features related to tax calculations and payment/shipping methods, showcasing a strong understanding of the backend architecture and data handling processes.
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vuestorefront/vue-storefront
Dec 2017 - Oct 2018
Alokai is a Frontend as a Service solution that simplifies composable commerce. It connects all the technologies needed to build and deploy fast & scalable ecommerce frontends. It guides merchants to deliver exceptional customer experiences quickly and easily.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:124 commits, 40 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Akbar primarily focused on front-end development, as shown by their work on the Checkout and PageNotFound components. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to the user interface, such as the display of offline messages. They also addressed bugs and refactored code within specific components like Shipping and PersonalDetails pages to enhance the user experience and improve the overall functionality of the e-commerce frontend. The user demonstrated knowledge of Vue.js and related technologies.
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