Nick Plekhanov is a Tech & Team Lead and senior full-stack engineer based in Oregon with over a decade of experience building scalable web applications and leading distributed teams. He specializes in React and TypeScript architectures, component-driven development, and automated workflows that cut development cycles and drive measurable business impact. Nick has a strong front-end pedigree—modernizing legacy stacks, optimizing Webpack builds (notably upgrading a Redux/webpack ES6 boilerplate and adding hot-reload and dashboard tooling), and shipping responsive SPA experiences. He pairs hands-on coding in Node/TypeScript with mentoring and process improvements, having coached multiple developers and reduced cycle times by ~40%. Practical and detail-focused, he blends web standards and UX sensibility with an engineer’s knack for improving build reliability and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of IT diploma of honour, Master of IT diploma of honour at Vladimir State University
A starter project for modern React apps with Redux
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:56 commits, 22 PRs, 54 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on React components, Redux integration, and webpack configuration. They refactored and updated the project's build process, particularly switching from Webpack 1 to Webpack 2 and optimizing the build configuration for development and production environments. The user also added React hot-loading capabilities and integrated a dashboard for a more convenient webpack output preview.
Contributions:64 commits, 18 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 months
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