Aleksandr Tsygankov
Principal React Native
Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Tsygankov is a Principal React Native engineer with 12 years of cross-platform mobile and backend experience, currently leading mobile development at Parkly. He blends deep hands-on React Native expertise—demonstrated by notable contributions to react-native-modal that improved scroll behavior and Android backdrop rendering—with a strong backend pedigree from roles at Aviasales/Jetradar and earlier PHP work. Comfortable across the stack, he has built high-load systems, analytics backoffices, and payment-enabled social apps, and he frequently ships production-grade features while working remotely. A polyglot engineer who lived and worked in the US, Thailand, and Indonesia, he brings an international perspective and fluent English with a slight Russian accent. Aleksandr is equally at home contracting hourly or joining an office if the location and project are compelling. He’s an avid StackOverflow user and maintains a public GitHub showcasing his practical, utility-focused open-source contributions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English Language, English Language at Sterlitamak Bashkir Turkish High SchoolComputational and Applied Mathematics, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Jobs in Russia
Spanish, English, Turkish, Thai, Russian
Stackoverflow
38,608reputation
5.5mreached
23answers
6questions
php
top-1%
python
top-5%
json
top-5%
error-handling
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serialization
top-5%
Github Skills (25)
javascript10
react-native10
mobile-development10
animation10
modals10
modal-dialog10
php10
syntaxerror10
modal-windows10
mobile10
error-handling10
react10
ios9
json9
serialization9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
react-native-modal/react-native-modal
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
An enhanced, animated, customizable Modal for React Native.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily focused on enhancing the React Native modal component to support advanced functionalities. Their commits added features enabling scrollable content integration within the modal, including the ability to scroll back up and control scroll behavior using `scrollTo` and `scrollOffset` props. Furthermore, they improved the user experience by introducing features that slow down the scrolling when too far, adding a bounce-back effect, and providing an example for scrollable modals. A notable contribution was the implementation of `useNativeDriverForBackdrop` to improve backdrop rendering on Android.
reactanimationmodalanimatedreact-native
pistonsky/trello-activity-report
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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