Evgeny Shurakov
Software Engineer at Kilo Code
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEvgeny Shurakov is a pragmatic Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient backends and polished iOS/macOS apps, most recently shaping Simplenote and Day One at Automattic. He combines hands-on production coding with technical leadership—driving architecture upgrades that improved fault tolerance, cutting AWS costs by 20% via auto-scaling, and introducing on-device, privacy-focused AI prototypes. Comfortable across the stack, Evgeny has a track record of shipping user-facing UI improvements (notably UI and accessibility enhancements in Simplenote’s macOS and iOS clients) while also delivering backend reliability and feature-flagging systems for gradual rollouts. Based in the Netherlands with a physics background, he blends analytical rigor with product empathy to turn complex requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Physics, B.S Physics at Ural Federal University
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Github Skills (24)
ios10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
uitableview10
front-end-development10
mobile10
swift10
uikit10
macos10
accessibility9
markdown9
objective-c9
autolayout9
graphical-user-interface9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/simplenote-ios
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
Simplenote for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:270 reviews, 475 commits, 107 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Evgeny primarily contributed to the iOS Simplenote application, implementing new UI components and features. Their work includes developing a card view controller with rounded corners and shadows, creating wireframes and implementing functionality for a history slider, and updating the appearance of the restore button and the snapping slider. Furthermore, the user integrated UI enhancements with accessibility improvements.
swiftiossimplenote
Automattic/simplenote-macos
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Simplenote for macOS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:163 reviews, 82 commits, 21 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Evgeny primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the macOS Simplenote application. Their contributions include updating the UI to reflect version updates, converting text to markdown upon copying to the pasteboard, implementing search excerpts, and highlighting search keywords in the editor. They also updated the color scheme and implemented keyboard shortcuts to improve the user experience and navigation within the application.
macossimplenote
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