Alfreds Genkins
Chief Technology Officer at ScandiPWA
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlfreds Genkins is a results-driven CTO at Scandiweb with eight years of hands-on experience scaling Adobe Magento e-commerce platforms and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He architected and maintains ScandiPWA, an open-source Magento PWA front-end, and drove initiatives that cut project timelines and budgets by 50% while reducing local setup time by eight hours and deployment time from 30 minutes to 30 seconds. His remit spans AI tool development, cloud & infrastructure, DevOps, UX optimization and Centers of Competence, reflecting a rare mix of strategic leadership and deep implementation skills. Alfreds began at Scandiweb as a 16-year-old intern and progressed through developer and tech lead roles, demonstrating long-term ownership and rapid technical growth. He pairs product-minded engineering with practical developer ergonomics—creating plug-and-play extensions, reusable themes and robust toolchains that remove common friction for Magento teams. Based in Riga and active on GitHub, he continues to contribute front-end and DevOps improvements to flagship repos like scandipwa and magento-docker.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Latvijas Universitate
Russian, Latvian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
docker10
javascript10
scripting10
bash10
ui-design10
dockers10
magento10
uid10
script10
front-end-development10
varnish10
sh10
shell10
react10
amazon-elasticsearch9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
scandipwa/magento-docker
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Docker environment dedicated for ScandiPWA theme development
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 267 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alfreds's commits primarily focus on configuring and optimizing the Docker environment for the ScandiPWA theme development. Their contributions include modifications to shell scripts (`.sh` files) related to certificate generation, database configuration, and general setup and deployment. They also integrated Varnish and Elasticsearch and made changes to configuration files.
docker-environmentdedicatedtheme-developmentdocker
scandipwa/scandipwa
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
Next-generation front-end for Magento 2
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 releases, 274 reviews, 1531 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alfreds's commits primarily involve front-end development tasks within the Magento 2 framework. Their contributions focus on improving user experience through adding meaningful messages and implementing features for orders, wishlists, and customizable options. These changes involve modifying and integrating components, showcasing a focus on UI and front-end functionality.
next-generationmagento-2shopwaremagento2magento2-extension
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