Alex Zavalii
Senior Software Engineer at Blockchain startup (Stealth mode)
Leinster, Ireland
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Zavalii is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building full-stack JavaScript applications, mobile apps, and cloud-native services across startups and enterprise teams. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he has delivered production-grade React/React Native front ends, Node.js back ends, and serverless solutions on AWS and Google Cloud, and currently drives engineering at a stealth blockchain startup. At Workday he contributed to the Canvas design system—improving accessibility, responsiveness, and tests—illustrating a strong focus on UI quality and maintainability. He led front-end efforts at Inflight Dublin, shipping multiple Cordova apps for mobile and in-flight entertainment and creating custom native plugins in Swift/Java. Comfortable bridging product and ops, Alex is the go-to engineer for production incidents and mentorship, with a track record of refactoring legacy AngularJS into modern React-Redux architectures. He pairs pragmatic engineering with hands-on open-source contributions, favoring accessible, well-tested UI components.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Sciences General, Bachelor's degree Computer and Information Sciences General at American University in Bulgaria
English, Russian, Romanian
Stackoverflow
2,192reputation
128kreached
83answers
17questions
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
ui-components10
react10
accessibilityservice9
accessibility9
css9
acessibility9
system-design7
carbon-design-system7
html6
automated-tests6
jestjs6
testcafe6
html-table6
redux6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Workday/canvas-kit
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Development kits to implement UI following the Workday Canvas Design System (https://canvas.workday.com/). See our Component Storybook -
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Workday Canvas Design System, specifically focusing on the React implementation. Their work included fixing styling issues, refactoring code, and enhancing the responsiveness of popup elements. Furthermore, they were involved in improving accessibility by adding missing ARIA attributes and ensuring proper focus trapping within modal components. The user also contributed to the testing suite by adding snapshot tests and updating existing tests.
reactfollowingcanvasstorybookdesign-system
alexandrzavalii/focus-trap-js
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022
Trap focus inside specified HTML element. Vanilla JS with size <0.5kb. No external dependencies.
Contributions:2 releases, 25 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 7 months
dependenciesjavascriptvanilla-jsfocus-traphtml-element
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.