Egor Smirnov
Tech Lead at V Kontakte LLC
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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RockstarEgor Smirnov is a tech lead with 10 years of experience building high-performance mobile web interfaces, currently leading frontend efforts at VKCOM in Saint Petersburg. He specializes in complex, thought-intensive projects and has deep hands-on expertise in React and mobile web UX, having contributed significant improvements to VKUI—an internal React component library that mirrors native iOS/Android interfaces. His work on the Tooltip component demonstrates a focus on accessibility, robust positioning (Popper.js) and maintainable refactors, reflecting an engineer who balances polish with pragmatic architecture. An active open-source contributor, Egor blends leadership with code-level craftsmanship and a preference for problems that require careful design and subtle technical trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Английский, Russian
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Github Skills (12)
popperjs10
javascript10
react10
ui-components10
typescript-types9
ui-design9
typescript9
typescripts9
css9
realm6
android6
java6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
VKCOM/VKUI
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
VKUI – это набор React-компонентов, с помощью которых можно создавать интерфейсы, внешне неотличимые от наших iOS и Android приложений.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 127 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Egor primarily contributed to the development of the VKUI React component library. Their work focused on implementing and refactoring the Tooltip component, utilizing the Popper.js library for positioning and arrow placement. They also made improvements to the component's accessibility and visual presentation, including the styling of the arrow and handling of various placement configurations. Their contributions involved significant code changes and refactoring to enhance the functionality and maintainability of the Tooltip component.
reactvkuijavascriptios-androidandroid
VKCOM/sprites
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
Module for generate SVG sprites and PNG fallback
Contributions:4 releases, 62 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 2 months
png-fallbacksvgsvg-spritesfallbacksvg-icons
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