Max Sysoev
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorMaksim S is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in Seattle with 13 years of experience building high-performance front-end systems and developer tooling, now leading teams at Microsoft. Deeply fluent in JavaScript and modern ecosystems (React, React Native, webpack), he pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership—hiring, mentoring, and driving feature rollout via A/B experiments and feature flags. He has a strong track record at Yandex optimizing video ad experiences and migrating large codebases to TypeScript to cut technical debt and bundle size. An active open-source contributor, Maksim has improved testing and developer UX in notable projects like Jest and contributed HMR and templating advances to a popular React webpack generator. Known as a self-motivated perfectionist who values testing and CI/CD, he also brings an unusual background in materials science, which informs a disciplined, experimental approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (32)
atom-editor10
hotswap10
javascript10
testing10
hot-module-replacement10
ui-design10
snapshots10
webpack10
yeoman10
uid10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
webpacker10
react-router10
hmr10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
react-webpack-generators/generator-react-webpack
Sep 2014 - Feb 2015
Yeoman generator for ReactJS and Webpack
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily contributed to the development of the React-based front-end generator. Their work includes implementing Hot Module Replacement (HMR) for faster development cycles, adding tests to ensure HMR functionality, and integrating style language selection (CSS, SASS, LESS, Stylus) based on user configuration. They refactored the project to use templates for configuration and included aliases for key directories within the project, improving maintainability and code organization.
reactwebpackyeoman-generator
jestjs/jest
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Delightful JavaScript Testing.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 50 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Max made several contributions focused on improving the test suite and coverage reporting within the Jest testing framework. They removed a mock directory from the coverage to streamline the reporting process. The user also added a Modal mock for React Native and refactored the code to include name prop as a component name for stateless components, enhancing the framework's testing capabilities. Furthermore, they cleared scrollback on terminal clear in watch mode, improving user experience.
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