Ilya Makarov
Head Of Development at Housearch
United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Makarov is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience building front-end teams and products, currently serving as Head of Development at Housearch in the UAE. He progressed through multiple leadership and senior engineering roles at Yandex, where he led frontend efforts for real estate classifieds and mentored cross-functional teams. A former co-founder of a gamified cognitive training startup that was successfully sold, he blends product-minded entrepreneurship with hands-on UI engineering. His open-source contributions emphasize UI refinement and UX improvements, reflecting a pragmatic focus on presentation and developer ergonomics. Trained at ITMO University, he combines deep technical roots with a knack for turning complex front-end challenges into polished user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности, Компьютерные технологии/технологии компьютерных систем, Диплом специалиста по инженерной специальности, Компьютерные технологии/технологии компьютерных систем at Университет ИТМО
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
html9
css8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vodkabears/Vide
Jun 2014 - Jan 2017
No longer actively maintained.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 203 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ilya's commits primarily focused on updating and improving the user interface of the project. They removed a local jQuery library and replaced it with a CDN link, updated examples to reflect the changes, and refactored the code to optimize formatting. The user also made adjustments to the examples and overall code style. These contributions indicate a focus on the presentation and user experience of the project.
actively-maintained
vodkabears/yaspell
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Spell checking tool for various texts written in golang
Contributions:8 releases, 29 commits, 50 pushes in 3 months
golangspellcheckingsherlocktexts
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