Maksim Ovcharik
Developer at YouDrive
Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian Federation
Summary
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Top SchoolMaksim Ovcharik is a seasoned full-stack developer with 13 years of experience building backend and frontend systems for web and mobile-adjacent services, currently developing both sides of a carsharing platform at YouDrive. His background spans Node.js, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB/MySQL, and frontend stacks including Backbone, Vue.js and SPA architectures, reflecting an ability to move between legacy and modern stacks. He has shipped social games, real-time features with web sockets, and tooling like map editors and control panels, demonstrating a blend of product-facing UI work and scalable backend engineering. An active contributor to open-source browser tooling, he improved media hotkey handling for Chrome extensions by adapting to evolving UIs and DOM interaction patterns—an example of pragmatic engineering that smooths real user workflows. Based in Chelyabinsk, he combines formal IT education (bachelor’s and master’s) with hands-on experience across startups and product teams.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Бакалавр, Информационные технологии, Бакалавр, Информационные технологии at Южно-Уральский Государственный Университет (ЮУрГУ)
Github Skills (9)
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
event-handling10
chrome-extension10
chrome-plugin10
mutationobserver10
chrome-app10
browser-extension10
ui-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
berrberr/streamkeys
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Global media player hotkeys for chrome
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Maksim primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of hotkeys for various media players within the Chrome browser extension. Their contributions included updating the `VkController.js` file to accommodate changes in the user interface of the VK music platform, incorporating new modules like `SimpleMutationObserver` and `MouseEventDispatcher` to improve the controller's interaction with the DOM, and fixing issues related to the old UI of the VK music platform. The user's work aimed to improve the user experience and compatibility with the music platform.
playerchromemedia-playerhotkeyschrome-extension
ovcharik/pdp11-asm
Dec 2013 - Jun 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 7 years 7 months
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