Eugene Matvejev
Self Employed
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEugene Matvejev is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with a decade of experience delivering robust front- and back-end solutions across finance, media, e-commerce and healthcare. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing performance and bundle-size improvements to high-profile projects like Ant Design—with API and IDE-focused backend work for frameworks such as Phalcon. A pragmatic systems thinker, he’s repeatedly led technical teams at firms including Warner Bros. Discovery, BlackRock and Alibaba, and has a sharp eye for spotting inefficiencies and pragmatic optimizations. Now semi-retired and investing in London, he stays deeply plugged into the community—attending many meetups, speaking at conferences, volunteering to help new engineers, and continuing open-source work. Comfortable oscillating between coding, architecture and mentoring, he also consults on efficiency improvements that other teams tend to overlook.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
English, Russian, Latvian
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Github Skills (19)
phalcon10
component-development10
typescript10
refactor10
php10
component-library10
typescript-types10
ant-design-pro10
typescripts10
refactoring10
react10
javascript9
apidoc9
api9
devtools8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phalcon/phalcon-devtools
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Phalcon Developer Tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 4 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eugene's contributions primarily involve updating Phalcon framework's stub files, specifically related to model interfaces, model classes, and database adapter and result interfaces. These updates appear to focus on refining API documentation, adjusting parameter types, and modifying method signatures. The user's changes are concentrated within the "ide/stubs" directory suggesting an effort to maintain accurate IDE support and code completion.
stubsphpphalcondeveloper-toolsphalcon-framework
ant-design/ant-design
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
An enterprise-class UI design language and React UI library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 22 days
Contributions summary:Eugene primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing existing React components within the Ant Design library. Their contributions involved cleaning up code, removing unnecessary dependencies, and improving the overall bundle size and performance of components such as Button, Collapse, Timeline, and Card. The user also addressed defaultProps and other component-level configurations. These changes demonstrate a focus on maintaining code quality and efficiency within the UI library.
reactlanguage-designant-designui-libraryantd
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