Jane Degtiareva
Senior Enginnering Manager at Beautiful.ai
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJane Degtiareva is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with 18+ years of engineering experience and eight years in leadership roles, known for scaling teams and shipping production-grade systems. She helped build and launch a top-25 blockchain (NEAR) as a core team member and contributed directly to its developer tooling and wallets, blending backend Rust/JS smart-contract work with frontend UX improvements. At Niantic she designed monetization and anti-cheat systems for Pokémon GO and later built and grew geo and full‑stack teams at Niantic and Tome, expanding Tome’s full‑stack team from 4 to 9 and delivering an early generative AI integration. She combines hands-on full‑stack development, open-source contributions to NEAR projects, and strategic vendor relationships (e.g., negotiating OpenAI enterprise access) to balance rapid experimentation with production reliability. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineering leader who hires deliberately, prioritizes observability and cost controls, and moves complex product integrations from MVP to scalable operation.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Toronto
Russian, English, French, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (27)
markdown10
wallet10
javascript10
testing10
nearprotocol10
markdown-it10
nft10
blockchain10
account-management10
smart-contracts10
rust10
react10
documentation10
apidoc9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
near/create-near-app
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Create a starter app hooked up to the NEAR blockchain
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 213 commits, 171 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jane primarily focused on developing a full-stack application for the NEAR blockchain. Their contributions included setting up a basic React frontend and integrating it with a Rust-based smart contract. They modified the frontend to include sign-in/sign-out functionality and implemented a mechanism to interact with the smart contract. The user also updated the Rust contract and the build process to enable deployment from the yarn start command.
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near/near-api-js
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
JavaScript library to interact with NEAR Protocol via RPC API
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 181 commits, 94 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jane primarily contributed to the development of the JavaScript library for interacting with the NEAR Protocol. Their work included implementing and testing account-related functionalities, such as creating accounts, viewing account details, and adding/removing access keys. They also added support for deploying contracts, making function calls, and integrating with local and browser-based key stores, demonstrating experience with both front-end and back-end components.
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