Ivan Akulov
Senior Performance Engineer at Framer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolIvan Akulov is a senior performance engineer and founder of PerfPerfPerf with 13 years of experience helping startups and Fortune 500s — including Google and Framer — speed up web experiences and increase revenue. Based in Amsterdam, he combines hands-on full‑stack engineering with deep performance specialization, from dependency and bundle optimization to runtime rendering improvements. At Framer he serves as Staff/ Senior Perf Engineer and his open-source contributions show practical impact on front-end UX and bundle size across projects like Appsmith and React/Svelte flow libraries. He also authored educational tooling and guides for Google’s WebFundamentals and maintains a technical blog and repositories that reflect a focus on measurable performance wins. Notably, his work often targets subtle inefficiencies (re-renders, icon loading, code-splitting) that yield disproportionate real-world improvements.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Donetsk National Technical UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Engineering at Open International University of Human Development “Ukraine”Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Belarusian State University of Informatics and RadioelectronicsDonetsk Gymnasium #92
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (40)
javascript10
cypress10
component-design10
typescript10
extension-functions10
redux10
google-chrome10
font-face10
front-end-development10
performance-optimization10
extension-methods10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
c-extension10
react10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
zalmoxisus/redux-devtools-extension
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Redux DevTools extension.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 50 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the Redux DevTools extension. Their contributions included refactoring the options page by replacing spans with labels for improved accessibility and implementing a more compact and visually appealing layout using flexbox. Furthermore, the user optimized the interface by resizing and aligning checkboxes, and by restructuring the layout to follow BEM methodology.
reactjavascriptdebugreduxdevtools-extension
appsmithorg/appsmith
Jul 2021 - Jul 2023
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 18 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Appsmith platform. Their work included upgrading dependencies such as Prettier and ensuring type safety with TypeScript, as well as fixing code editor issues. Furthermore, the user made performance improvements by optimizing the loading of icons and code-splitting the settings page, demonstrating a focus on enhancing user experience and reducing bundle size. They also contributed to Cypress tests, specifically for table filter functionalities and preload configurations.
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