Oleg Gromov is an engineering team lead and versatile software generalist with 13 years of experience building and shipping front-end-driven web apps and AI tools from London. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership—recently leading teams at Oneday and previously at Sourcegraph, Facebook, Klarna and Yandex—while also co-founding and owning tech for a family business. Oleg is an active open-source contributor, improving UI, responsiveness and testing in well-known projects like Metabase and Sourcegraph. He excels at refactoring legacy front-ends and making complex interfaces more maintainable and accessible, often removing unnecessary components to improve quality. Comfortable across product, analytics and rapid prototyping, he brings a pragmatic, full-stack mindset to ship impactful features fast. A detail-oriented problem solver, he pairs a data science background with deep UI craftsmanship to bridge design, engineering and business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science and Business Analytics, Data Science and Business Analytics at University of London
English as a Second Language, English as a Second Language at Columbia West College, Los Angeles
Computer Hardware and Networking, Computer Hardware and Networking at Rostov State College of Informational and Industrial Technologies
Don State Technical University
International Economics, International Economics at Rostov State Economic University (RINH)
Contributions:85 reviews, 67 commits, 75 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Oleg primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Sourcegraph platform. Their work involved fixing mobile sidebar issues by implementing a `useMatchMedia` hook and updating the component for responsiveness. They also modified the UI by changing button labels and updating the appearance of elements such as the success banner. Furthermore, the user migrated various components to use Wildcard/Tabs, improving the user interface and experience.
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:195 reviews, 117 PRs, 276 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Oleg contributed to the Metabase project by fixing UI and styling issues within the frontend codebase. They addressed widget border problems, updated parameter input styles, and removed unused classes and flex properties. Further contributions involved refactoring and fixing a card-filter connection, adding new tests, and adding the "always required value" setting. The user also refactored code to remove unnecessary components and enhance the quality of the UI.
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