Alexander Nazarov is an experienced IT leader with 14 years delivering reliable release and QA processes across global teams, most recently managing biweekly releases for a 100+ person, multi-country organization at Deutsche Bank. He combines deep operational discipline—automating release calendars, scope reviews, change requests and Jira hygiene—with hands-on people management and cross-team coordination across 10 distributed teams. A former Head of QA and support lead, he built QA processes and automation from scratch, introduced agile practices, and drove measurable improvements through retrospectives and metrics. He also contributes to open-source React Native UI libraries, shipping polished indicators, material dropdowns and textfields with accessibility, RTL support and configurable animations. Comfortable bridging technical and business stakeholders, he frequently turns complex release and QA challenges into automated, auditable workflows. Based in Moscow, he is fluent in English and known for combining practical engineering with process-first leadership.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer science, Specialist, Computer science at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Contributions:8 releases, 321 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on the development of the user interface components for a React Native material design textfield. They refactored and enhanced existing components by renaming props, adding animation effects, and extending the component to support multiline text fields, and implemented character counters. The user also worked on enhancing the component with features such as text input formatting, and adding support for accessibility features. They are also responsible for updating the example app and adding tests.
Contributions:1 release, 150 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on developing UI components for the React Native activity indicators library. They implemented various indicator styles, including dot, UIActivityIndicator, wave, bar, ball, pulse, Skype, Pacman, and Material indicators, along with configurable options for each. The user added features like configurable animation direction, size, easing, and the ability to stop animation, improving the library's flexibility and user experience. Furthermore, they updated the example application to showcase the newly developed indicators.
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