Alex Shpak
Staff Software Engineer at LeoVegas Group
Växjö, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Shpak is a Staff Software Engineer based in Växjö, Sweden, with over a decade of experience building high-load backend systems, mobile apps, and polished user interfaces while championing KISS and elegant code. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the FluxCD release workflow—with full-stack and front-end work on projects like KeeWeb and his popular Hugo theme, demonstrating comfort across the stack. At LeoVegas he progressed from Senior DevOps to staff-level engineering, and his consulting history includes Java and Kotlin roles and technical leadership on high-profile games and fintech projects. A communicator and team player, Alex pairs pragmatic engineering with a curiosity to explore different areas of development, balancing intense problem-solving with cycling, powerlifting and a taste for atmospheric metal.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
Russian, English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (31)
kubernetes10
git10
hugo10
javascript10
electron10
cordova10
css10
sass10
gitops10
go10
front-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
html10
testing9
filesystem9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alex-shpak/hugo-book
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
Hugo documentation theme as simple as plain book
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 10 reviews, 316 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of the Hugo book theme's front-end. Their work involved refactoring various partials, layouts, and Sass files to improve the theme's structure. They also added partial hooks to customize the theme and updated the CSS styles. Furthermore, the user improved the mobile user experience and refined the handling of page titles and the side menu, indicating a focus on user interface and user experience.
hugoshortcodehugo-documentationdocumentation-themeplain
keeweb/keeweb
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 4 PRs, 40 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on refactoring the application to support Cordova apps, focusing on the electron-based launcher. They modified the `launcher-electron.js` file, which suggests interaction with the Electron framework. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to several other files, like `app.js`, `bootstrap.js`, `settings-store.js`, `storage-file.js`, `storage-file-cache.js`, and `app-model.js` indicating involvement across different parts of the KeeWeb application. These changes included implementing and fixing settings stores, file operations and file chooser improvements.
electronpassword-generatorsecurityjavascriptpassword-manager
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