Elvira Burchik
Frontend Engineer at Pairwise Tech
Berlin, Germany
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Elvira Burchik is a frontend engineer with a decade of experience building performant mobile and web experiences from Berlin, blending native iOS expertise with React Native and TypeScript. She helped ship Shopify’s FlashList and open-sourced performance tooling that became core to Shopify’s mobile stack, and contributed specifically to iOS layout logic and robust e2e tests. As founder of Pairwise Tech she owned product, design and growth, launching two apps that reached 10.5K organic users in eight months while leading a remote engineering team. Her background includes building design systems and UI component libraries at Flo Health and driving architecture changes across enterprise iOS apps, demonstrating strong cross-platform judgement. Known for turning performance and developer-experience challenges into reusable tools, she combines hands-on implementation with product-minded ownership. Based in Berlin, she brings a practical mix of startup grit and large-company engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology and Control, Bachelor's degree Information Technology and Control at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Russian, English, German, Russian
Github Skills (5)
detox10
react-native10
ui-testing9
uitest9
xcode9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/flash-list
Jan 2022 - May 2022
A better list for React Native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 reviews, 31 commits, 1 branch in 4 months
Contributions summary:Elvira primarily contributed to the iOS side of the React Native application, specifically focusing on the `AutoLayoutView` component. Their work included modifying the layout logic to compute and report blank areas, and refactoring the code to use the correct offsets based on the list orientation. They also added and improved the e2e tests, which involves screen shot testing and orientation change testing using Detox.
reactreact-nativewindowingandroid
Shopify/react-native-performance
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Performance monitoring for React Native apps
Contributions:1 release, 6 reviews, 52 commits in 7 months
performance-monitoringreactreact-nativeuser-guidesplashscreen
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