Oleg Lokhvitsky is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience based in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently building platform-level features at Facebook since 2014. He brings deep mobile expertise, contributing to the widely used open-source React Native project with bug fixes and platform integrations across Android and iOS—work that touches components like ListView, Navigator, Network, ScrollView and Android-specific modules. His background includes production roles at CloudCar, Microsoft, and Yahoo!, demonstrating strength in both startup and large-company environments. Beyond engineering, he has sustained long-term technical stewardship in volunteer and event IT roles, suggesting a knack for reliable, operational delivery under pressure. Notably, his open-source contributions reveal an attention to cross-platform quirks and user-facing stability that improve developer and app experiences alike.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Bachelors at University of California, Davis
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Contributions:27 commits, 22 comments in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Oleg primarily contributes to the React Native framework, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements related to Android and iOS platform integrations. Their work includes addressing issues in the `ListView`, `Navigator`, and `Network` components. They also contribute to Android-specific modules, such as adding functionality to `AlertDialog` and resolving cookie handling issues. Additional contributions involve flexbox layout bugs and the `ScrollView` component.
Contributions:6 reviews, 121 commits, 15 PRs in 9 months
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