Aleksandr Shulaev is a software engineering manager and former frontend specialist with a decade of experience building high-performance, user-focused web applications and leading cross-functional teams from Yerevan. He combines deep hands-on expertise in TypeScript, React, testing, and CI/CD with proven people leadership—having formed and scaled four teams, reduced onboarding time from three months to one, and raised developer retention to 90% without extra budget. Aleksandr led the creation of an MVP design system with semantic-release automation, delivered performance wins that pushed Web Vitals into the green, and engineered a client recommendation tool that boosted conversions by 15%. He also migrated large codebases (Flow→TypeScript), introduced automated E2E testing, and optimized experiment delivery to cut load and package sizes significantly. An active contributor to algorithm education materials on GitHub, he pairs practical engineering with mentorship and process design to accelerate product impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Informatics, 4,8, Bachelor's degree, Applied Informatics, 4,8 at Tolyatti State University
Code for the book Grokking Algorithms (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1633438538)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 11 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to the codebase by addressing formatting issues and implementing JSDoc across various JavaScript and ES6 files. Their work included modifying examples and fixing code in multiple files, including those related to sorting algorithms and hash tables. The commits demonstrate an understanding of both Javascript and ES6, and they touch on algorithmic concepts.
Contributions:1 release, 131 PRs, 157 pushes in 9 months
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