Alex Shepelev
Senior Product Specialist at Apriorit
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Shepelev is a Senior Product Specialist and former co-founder with 11 years of experience blending project management, UI/UX design, and multi-platform mobile development to deliver practical, user-focused software. Based in Kyiv, he leads cross-functional teams on estimation, budgeting, and time management while retaining hands-on technical chops from front-end and mobile work. Alex has contributed to open-source tooling—helping add emulator support and improve error mapping in a Kotlin-first Firebase SDK—improving testing and developer experience across Android, iOS, and JS. He brings a maker’s curiosity rooted in an engineering education (Master’s in Laser Technologies) and a track record of launching projects on time and on budget through design-led planning. Notably, his background as a UI/UX designer informs how he prioritizes usability alongside technical delivery.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Русский, Английский, Украинский
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kotlin
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Github Skills (16)
kotlin10
firebase-db10
google-cloud-firestore10
firebase-authentication10
firebase-realtime-database10
firebase10
firestore10
kotlin-coroutines9
android9
kotlin-multiplatform9
dagger9
javascript9
ios9
testing8
androidx6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GitLiveApp/firebase-kotlin-sdk
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
A Kotlin-first SDK for Firebase
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 34 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the implementation of the `useEmulator()` API, adding emulator support for various Firebase services like authentication, Firestore, and Realtime Database within the Kotlin SDK. This included modifications to both Android, iOS, and JS code, and adjustments to the test configurations to work with the emulators. Furthermore, the user addressed several bugs and implemented error mapping for improved usability. These contributions enhanced the testing capabilities and overall development experience of the Firebase Kotlin SDK.
firebase-databasefirestorefirebase-firestorefirebase-functionsfirebase
shepeliev/webrtc-kmp
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
WebRTC Kotlin Multiplatform SDK
Contributions:43 releases, 15 reviews, 132 commits in 1 year 9 months
kotlin-multiplatformwebrtcandroidsdkkotlin
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