George Savchenko
Senior Frontend Developer, Team Lead at SHOEBOX Ltd.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGeorge Savchenko is a Senior Frontend Developer and team lead with 10 years of experience building resilient React and TypeScript applications and improving developer workflows. He’s led platform-wide component library initiatives, slashed unit test execution times by 70%, and migrated legacy Redux caches to React-Query to boost performance and maintainability. George combines pragmatic engineering—driven by MDN specs and thorough unit testing—with mentorship and process improvements that scale across codebases. He has a history of rescuing critical launches, standardizing thousands of files, and rearchitecting frontends to reduce memory usage. Based in Ottawa, he balances technical rigor with creative pursuits—drawing comics and collecting coins—that keep his product work human-centered and grounded.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma of Software Engineering Technology Computer Software Engineering, Advanced Diploma of Software Engineering Technology Computer Software Engineering at Centennial CollegeBachelors of Computing Computer Software Engineering, Bachelors of Computing Computer Software Engineering at University of Guelph
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Github Skills (43)
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
react9
vscode9
android8
ios8
react-native8
nativescript7
cross-platform7
angular6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gsavchenko/george-webapp
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
this is my personal digital garden
Contributions:2 reviews, 229 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 9 months
reacttailwindcssgardennextjsdigital-garden
gsavchenko/kur-kards
May 2022 - Sep 2022
second attempt at a distributed card game
Contributions:9 reviews, 13 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 months
secondgamecard-gamedistributed
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