Alexander Polyankin
Senior Software Engineer at Metabase
Oregon, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Polyankin is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience leading frontend architecture and delivery, currently driving high-impact initiatives at Metabase from Oregon. He authors technical design docs, makes architectural decisions, and collaborates closely with cross-functional teams to build scalable UI systems, including a Mantine/Formik-based design system and customizable dashboard parameters. At Metabase he integrated AI into product workflows by developing Metabot, which translates natural language into database queries and visualizes results—work tied to contributions on the popular open-source Metabase project. His background includes migrating large codebases to TypeScript, pioneering micro-frontends, and cutting heavy report load times by an order of magnitude, showing a practical focus on performance and developer experience. He combines hands-on component development and refactoring with system-level thinking, making him adept at turning complex front-end challenges into maintainable, testable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Processing and Control Automated Systems Engineering, Master's degree, Information Processing and Control Automated Systems Engineering at Volgograd State Technical University
English
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Github Skills (21)
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typescripts10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4826 reviews, 901 commits, 2926 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions primarily focused on developing and maintaining user interface components within the Metabase project. Their work included implementing and testing UI elements such as filter widgets, menu options, and data selection interfaces. Furthermore, the user was involved in the refactoring and maintenance of components, demonstrating a focus on UI development and experience.
datasimplestfastestbusiness-analyticsbusiness-intelligence
RevRebel/metabase
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Contributions:157 commits in 3 months
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