Olga Leus
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Group Tech Lead For Guide at Zendesk
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolOlga Leus is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and Group Tech Lead for Guide at Zendesk, bringing over a decade of hands-on experience building customer-facing web platforms and knowledge-management products. Based in Copenhagen, she combines full-stack expertise in React, GraphQL/Apollo, and modern frontend toolchains with a strong background in backend and streaming systems from roles at Spotify and MintiLab. She is known for improving accessibility and UX—her front-end contributions to Zendesk’s widely used copenhagen_theme replaced hardcoded colors with variables and fixed a11y and navigation issues. A pragmatic mentor and code-reviewer, Olga has repeatedly led refactors, architecture decisions, and performance work across teams large and small. Her applied-mathematics training underpins a data-informed approach to product development and A/B experimentation.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Applied Mathematics, Specialist Applied Mathematics at Belarusian State University
English, Russian, Russian, Danish
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Github Skills (10)
accessibility10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
html9
jquery6
angularjs6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/copenhagen_theme
Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
The default theme for Zendesk Guide
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Olga focused on improving the user interface and accessibility of the Zendesk Guide theme. They addressed visual styling inconsistencies by replacing hardcoded colors with variables and fixing color contrast issues. They updated the form elements by marking optional fields and improving the usability of specific components by replacing show comment container, also adding focus handling. Finally, they fixed a11y issues and updated the navigation.
csszendeskdark-themedefault-theme
yara-simargil/pnp-tool
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:14 pushes in 7 months
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