Alex Zherdev
Principal Front End Engineer at Atlassian
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Zherdev is a Principal Front End Engineer based in Vancouver with 15 years of industry experience and a decade focused on front-end engineering, infrastructure, and developer productivity. He has led technical teams at Atlassian and Salesforce, shaping front-end architecture and coaching engineers to improve delivery and code quality. A hands-on contributor to open source, Alex has fixed nuanced React linting bugs and added support for newer React features in widely used tooling, underscoring his attention to developer ergonomics. His work on a React Native IDE included UI feature development and snapshot testing infrastructure, reflecting a strong emphasis on robust developer-facing UX and testability. Trained in mathematics and computer science, he combines rigorous problem-solving with a curiosity-driven approach to tooling and platform-level improvements.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master’s Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Belarusian State University
English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (33)
uitest10
javascript10
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eslint10
ruby10
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error-handling10
ui-testing10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-react
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
React-specific linting rules for ESLint
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 33 PRs, 221 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to enhancing the `eslint-plugin-react` repository by fixing bugs related to React-specific linting rules. Their commits addressed issues such as sorting propTypes, handling JSX element depths, and improving the destructuring-assignment rule. They also removed unnecessary dependencies and added support for new React features like createClass and shorthand fragments.
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decosoftware/deco-ide
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
The React Native IDE
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & QA Engineer
Front-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end of the React Native IDE, adding functionality for the user interface elements like toolbars and navigators, and working on the file tree. They also implemented integration tests for core UI elements. The commits demonstrate the implementation of a snapshot testing infrastructure for UI components, ensuring visual stability.
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