Dmitry Smirnov
Software Engineering Director at UBS
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDmitry Smirnov is a seasoned software engineering director based in Zurich with over 20 years in web and front-end engineering and more than a decade in senior leadership roles across major banks and fintech vendors. He combines deep hands-on experience in Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript frameworks and frontend architecture with strategic responsibility for performance, migrations and DevOps at institutions like UBS and Credit Suisse. Dmitry has a strong product-facing background from Backbase where he led R&D teams, built developer tooling and delivered customer POCs integrating banking APIs, blending technical craft with client-facing solution engineering. Known for improving client application performance and defining future-state architectures, he excels at guiding teams through complex migrations and operationalizing front-end best practices. A master’s-trained computer scientist, he brings a pragmatic, long-term perspective shaped by early e-commerce and startup experience and a habit of translating UI-level improvements into measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Yaroslavl Demidov State University
English, Russian, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
raml8
data-visualization6
api6
charts6
javascript6
backbase5
nodejs5
transform5
mocking5
css5
widgets5
node-module5
maintenance4
npm4
development-tools4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
halluxdev/hallux
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Convenient AI Code Quality Assistant
Contributions:24 reviews, 60 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year 6 months
dmitrisweb/free-transform
Oct 2013 - Mar 2020
CSS Free Transform
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes in 6 years 6 months
cssfree-csstransform
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