Konstantin Raev is a seasoned software developer with 15+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance front-end and mobile systems, now focused on CI systems at Meta. He has led performance initiatives at Facebook Marketplace—cutting Android startup P75 by ~55%—and was the tech lead for Yarn, inventing the Offline Mirror feature used widely to make JavaScript dependency installs reliable at scale. Konstantin blends deep JavaScript/TypeScript and React/React Native expertise with cloud and mobile build tooling knowledge, contributing to flagship OSS projects like React Native CLI, Metro, and Yarn. He’s equally comfortable architecting developer experience and monorepo migrations, having driven org-wide tooling and measurement programs at Indeed and PointsBet. Based in Ponte Vedra Beach, he pairs a systems mindset with curiosity for IoT and microcontrollers, and frequently shares learnings through tech talks and open-source contributions.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Moscow Engineering Physical Institute
The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:32 releases, 344 commits, 572 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Konstantin made numerous contributions to the Yarn package manager, primarily focused on the installation process. They implemented functionality for saving packages to an offline mirror, enabling installations from that mirror, and addressing issues with file paths, and integrity checks. The user also worked on core components and functionalities, including the code for the tarball fetching process.
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:3 releases, 269 commits, 277 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin primarily contributed to the Android platform within the React Native framework. The commits focused on implementing and integrating new Android-specific UI components, specifically a SwipeRefreshLayout and a Picker, while also addressing the migration and maintenance of Android unit tests. Further contributions included fixing bugs in the build process and ensuring that the tests were run in a CI environment.
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