Summary
Irina Churkina is a Full Stack Developer based in Vancouver with eight years of experience and a strong front-end focus, currently building products at PurposeMed. She specializes in React, Redux and styled components, has a track record of modernizing legacy front-ends (notably migrating code to React at Thinkific) and advocates reusable component libraries across teams. Comfortable jumping into backend tasks when needed, she’s delivered responsive single-page apps across multiple frameworks (Ember, Angular, React) and emphasizes clean, tested code. Constantly learning, Irina is exploring mobile development in her spare time and brings collaborative problem-solving energy from working in distributed Scrum teams. Outside of engineering, she practices yoga and plays classical guitar, which she says helps sustain her focus and creativity.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics and Computing Technology, Bachelor's degree Informatics and Computing Technology at Saint Petersburg University of Telecommunications