Artem Sapegin
Senior Frontend Engineer at Universal Music Group
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolArtem Sapegin is a Senior Frontend Engineer with 17 years of experience building user-facing web applications at scale, currently working on Universal Music Group’s Stage+ in Berlin. He champions component-driven development, accessibility, and maintainable code, and is the creator of React Styleguidist—a living style guide used by many in the React ecosystem. Artem has modernized frontend stacks across companies like Omio, Wayfair, and HERE, introducing testing, linting, TypeScript/Flow migrations, and shared component libraries. His open-source work spans tooling and developer experience (mrm, grunt-webfont) and curating community projects (contributions to js.org), showing a pragmatic focus on developer productivity as well as UX. Off the keyboard, he’s a coffee-first developer with eclectic creative pursuits—award-losing photography and leathercraft—that underscore a detail-oriented, hands-on approach to craft.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s degree, Applied Informatics in Economics, Master’s degree, Applied Informatics in Economics at Open Technological Institute
English, Russian, German
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Github Skills (37)
javascript10
domain-name10
preprocessing10
preprocess10
css10
templater10
eslint10
template-engine10
custom-domain10
gruntjs10
codemod10
text-processing10
preprocessor10
html10
g10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sapegin/grunt-webfont
Nov 2012 - Mar 2017
SVG to webfont converter for Grunt
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 420 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Artem primarily contributed to the `grunt-webfont` project by implementing and modifying various aspects of the webfont generation process, with a specific focus on CSS and HTML template handling. They refactored the CSS generation logic, improved compatibility with different CSS preprocessors such as LESS and Stylus, and added options to customize the template and also enhance HTML demo generation. Their work also included improvements to IE8 compatibility and file path handling.
svg
styleguidist/react-styleguidist
Sep 2015 - Oct 2022
Isolated React component development environment with a living style guide
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:168 releases, 61 reviews, 1334 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Artem contributed to the React Styleguidist project by implementing new features and improving the user interface of the documentation tool. Their commits primarily focused on enhancing the editor and playground components, adding new example features, and updating the styling for a more polished user experience. The user also worked on improving the project's build process.
react-componentreactstyleguide
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