Alisa Novikova
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlisa Novikova is a software engineer based in Seattle with a hybrid background in HR-driven talent strategy and hands-on software development, currently building products at Google. She has transitioned from leadership and project management roles into engineering, bringing 3+ years of focused software experience and a decade of industry exposure that helps her balance technical delivery with team dynamics. Alisa contributes to notable open-source work in the dotnet/winforms repository, improving accessibility, focus handling, and UI behavior—demonstrating attention to quality and user-facing details. Her experience across startups and enterprises (Amwell, Akvelon, 7 Simple Machines) equips her to ship reliable, test-covered features in complex codebases. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and studied management, a combination that underpins her pragmatic approach to cross-functional collaboration. Colleagues praise her for strong decision-making, multi-tasking, and a tireless work ethic that consistently raises team productivity.
3 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Management, Management at International Institute of Management LINK (former Distance Learning Centre)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ivanovo State Power University
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (10)
accessibility10
windows-forms10
unit-testing10
uid10
csharp10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
dotnet-core10
desktop9
winforms9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
dotnet/winforms
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 14 commits, 27 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alisa contributed extensively to the Windows Forms framework, addressing accessibility issues and improving the user interface. They fixed a color issue within ToolStrip and enhanced the handling of focus and navigation within menu and print preview controls. The user also added unit tests for accessibility features in several components and refactored code for better structure.
dotnetuwpwindows-desktopwindowsui-framework
v-elnovikova/winforms
Oct 2022 - Jul 2023
Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Contributions:181 pushes, 50 branches in 9 months
dotnetuwpwindows-desktopwindowsui-framework
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