Ilya Zarembsky
QA Contractor at Motion
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Zarembsky is a QA specialist with nine years of experience ensuring stability and smooth releases for productivity and consumer-facing products, most recently at Duolingo after leading QA and release coordination at Motion. He blends hands-on frontend development experience—contributing UI improvements to the widely used Ghostery browser extension—with structured QA and release processes to ship frequent feature-driven updates. Ilya's background in game design (NYU MFA) and university-level teaching gives him a strong systems-thinking approach to user experience, test design, and cross-functional collaboration. Comfortable moving between tooling, test strategy, and hands-on bug fixes, he focuses on reducing friction for product teams while maintaining high quality. Outside work he’s a long-distance runner, ~2000 FIDE classical strategy gamer, and urban explorer—interests that reflect discipline, pattern recognition, and curiosity he brings to technical problems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Game and Interactive Media Design, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Game and Interactive Media Design at New York UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Bachelor of Arts - BA, ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at Yale University
Russian, English, French
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
html10
react10
firefox-webextension9
firefox-addon9
chrome-extension9
google-chrome-extension9
webextension9
edgejs8
microsoft-edge8
opera8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ghostery/ghostery-extension
Nov 2018 - Jun 2021
Ghostery Browser Extension for Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge and Safari
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:126 reviews, 184 commits, 120 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Ghostery browser extension, making various updates to the user interface and user experience. They implemented new features related to rewards and offers, including the display of offer cards and adjustments to the user interface in the panel view. The user also addressed bug fixes, improved layout and formatting, and addressed browser compatibility issues. The user also updated the UI for the subscription upgrade modals.
firefoxopera-extensionbrowserprivacyedge-extension
wlycdgrfromflatiron/learn-co-sandbox
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:605 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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