Oleg Volkov
Senior Software Engineer at Facebook
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOleg Volkov is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, developer tools, and backend services across companies from startups to Facebook. He combines deep pragmatic backend skills (C++, Hack, .NET, AWS) with a history of improving engineering practices—introducing CI, code reviews, tracing, and test automation that cut test times and manual work. At Facebook he coordinates harm-detection at scale and developer experience; earlier roles show measurable impact such as eliminating hundreds of manual order interventions, modernizing legacy T-SQL into well-tested C#, and speeding 500 integration tests from 45 to 8 minutes. A long-time technical lead and hiring mentor, he also contributes to open-source testing for widely used tools like gulp-sourcemaps, emphasizing robust error handling and coverage. He blends hands-on implementation with architecture and team-building, often turning operational pain points into automated, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Applied Mathematics & Physics, Applied Mathematics & Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Master's, Mathematics, Master's, Mathematics at Donetsk National UniversityDonetsk Technical College
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
sourcemaps10
test-automation10
testing10
gulp9
asp-net-mvc9
error-handling9
ninject6
orm6
subsonic6
hash6
salt6
nhibernate6
sha6
cryptography6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gulp-sourcemaps/gulp-sourcemaps
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Sourcemap support for gulpjs.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Oleg focused on improving the testing of the `gulp-sourcemaps` library. They added a test case to specifically check the handling of missing source map files when the `loadMaps` option is enabled. Furthermore, they modified existing test code to ensure comprehensive coverage and correct error message output. The user also adjusted code to simplify output and fix code coverage.
gulp-plugingulputilitygulpjssourcemap
ogvolkov/flat-xml-git-merge-driver
Dec 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 5 pushes in 3 months
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