Alex Suevalov
Product Software Engineer at Linear
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Suevalov is a product-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building complex single-page applications and leading front-end initiatives from Berlin. He has driven extensibility and design-system work at Contentful and now shapes product engineering at Linear, often bridging teams and mentoring mid and junior engineers. Alex’s background spans finance, travel, project management and CMS domains, including a notable contribution to a Skyscanner white-label search used across ~30 languages. He’s an active open-source contributor to Contentful UI extensions, refactoring samples to modern tooling and simplifying integrations. Known for a strong attention to detail and a passion for making complex things simple, he regularly shares best practices at conferences and meet-ups. He’s keen to lead engineering teams on ambitious projects that push UI and product boundaries.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Programming, Specialist, Master's degree, Computer Programming, Specialist at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
English, German, Russian, Polish
Github Skills (7)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
html8
netlify7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
contentful/extensions
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Repository providing samples using the UI Extensions SDK
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 67 PRs, 111 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of UI extensions within the `contentful/extensions` repository, which provides samples using the UI Extensions SDK. Their work included adding new extensions like the "Build Netlify sidebar extension" and making updates to existing ones, such as the "External API example" and "Gatsby preview". They also refactored and updated extensions to leverage newer versions of Forma and create-contentful-extension, demonstrating proficiency in front-end frameworks and Contentful's UI extensions ecosystem.
extensionssdk
suevalov/next-blog-firestore
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Example of blog built with React, Next.js, Firebase Firestore, Styled-Component, Mobx State Tree and other cool technologies
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 9 months
next-jsbuilt-with-reactfirebase-firestorereact-next-jsmobx-state-tree
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