Max Kuznetsov
Senior Frontend Developer at VK
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolMax Kuznetsov is a Senior Frontend Developer with 8 years of experience building large-scale web products, currently contributing to VK’s social network core team. He specializes in React and Next.js, zero-runtime CSS-in-JS, webpack, and end-to-end testing with jest and cypress, and has strong domain experience in architecture, DX, and design systems. Previously he helped maintain a massive microfrontend banking platform at Sberbank, where he combined engineering, product ownership, and scrum leadership across 200+ developers. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved canvas worker rendering and device pixel support in the widely used lottie-web project, reflecting a focus on performance and real-world integration challenges. Based in Moscow, he pairs pragmatic engineering with public speaking and cross-team collaboration, making him a reliable T-shaped technologist for complex front-end ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information systems and technologies, Master's degree, Information systems and technologies at MIREA (Russian Technological University)
Английский
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
webworker10
canvas10
front-end-development9
performance-optimization8
forms6
checkbox6
autofill6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/lottie-web
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Render After Effects animations natively on Web, Android and iOS, and React Native. http://airbnb.io/lottie/
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 15 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Max primarily focused on enhancing the canvas worker functionality within the Lottie web project. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to the worker's message handling, ensuring proper canvas transfer and sizing, and addressing potential blur issues. They also implemented device pixel ratio support and monkey-patched methods to work correctly with the worker, indicating efforts to optimize the canvas rendering performance and integration. These changes improve the efficiency and quality of rendering Lottie animations in a web worker environment.
renderreactanimationafter-effectsextendscript
knenkne/sberbank-practice
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:38 PRs, 151 pushes, 17 branches in 11 months
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