Artur Arseniev
Founder & CTO at Grapes Studio Inc
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolArtur Arseniev is a founder and CTO with 11+ years building complex web applications and a strong focus on front-end UX and high-quality code. He created and continues to lead development of GrapesJS, a popular open-source web builder framework, and has a track record of shipping plugins and editor features that simplify visual template creation. Having held senior and staff frontend roles at companies like Uiflow (acquired by Workday), talabat and Casa.it, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on implementation. He founded Grapedrop to turn the GrapesJS vision into a user-facing website builder, demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and product instincts. Based in Dubai, he actively contributes to open source and continuously refines core editing components—often improving style management, CSS rule handling and component APIs. His work combines deep frontend expertise with practical product delivery, making complex editor UX approachable for non-technical users.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Italian, Russian, English
Github Skills (12)
plugin-development10
css10
html10
uid10
javascript10
mjml10
grapesjs10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
webpacker9
webpack9
lib9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GrapesJS/grapesjs
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Free and Open source Web Builder Framework. Next generation tool for building templates without coding
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:99 releases, 397 reviews, 5052 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Artur's commits primarily revolve around enhancements and refactoring of the GrapesJS library, focusing on improvements to the style manager and component editing capabilities. The contributions include adding new features to the PropertyStack component, improving the handling of CSS rules, and modifying the user interface. Specifically, the code changes involve adjustments to core functionality like adding layer labels, improving text editor capabilities and updating and refining internal component logic.
no-codetemplate-buildertemplategrapesjspage-builder
GrapesJS/preset-webpage
Nov 2017 - Sep 2022
GrapesJS Plugin Webpage Preset
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 76 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Artur primarily contributed to the development of front-end components and functionality within the GrapesJS preset. Their work included adding import commands to load HTML content, introducing basic blocks, and integrating various plugins, such as for navbar, countdown, forms, and export features. They were also involved in updating the user interface with new panel options and improved icon representations.
grapesjs
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