Olya Balashova
Senior Software Engineer at Awardco
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolOlya Balashova is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building full-stack web applications and authentication systems, currently at Awardco in Lehi, Utah. She has worked across startups and large cloud teams including AWS, nCino, and Domo, delivering performant React-based UI components and complex auth flows like social sign-in and passwordless registration. Olya contributed to the widely used aws-amplify/amplify-js project, improving the auth module with features such as auto sign-in after sign-up and more robust storage and resetPassword behavior. Comfortable in ambiguous technical spaces, she pairs pragmatic design documentation with hands-on implementation and performance tuning. Her background in both front-end frameworks (AngularJS → React) and back-end Java services gives her a strong full-stack perspective that drives reliable, user-focused systems.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
aws10
amazon-cognito10
auth10
react8
react-native7
typescript-types6
typescripts6
typescript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-js
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 69 reviews, 68 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Olya primarily contributed to the `auth` module within the `aws-amplify-js` repository. Their work focused on implementing features like auto sign-in after sign-up, fixing storage bugs, and refactoring the resetPassword API. They also added new features and functionalities like including code delivery details as part of the callback for updateAttributes in the `auth` module. These contributions suggest a strong involvement in both the front-end and back-end aspects of the authentication process within the Amplify framework.
pwaamazon-cognitoawsaws-mobilestorage
helgabalashova/amplify-js
May 2022 - Apr 2023
A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
Contributions:16 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
cloud-servicesjavascript-libraryagnosticjavascriptdeclarative
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