Polly Makevnina
Full-stack Developer at Freelance
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Top SchoolPolly Makevnina is a seasoned full-stack developer with 14 years of experience delivering well-architected web platforms and leading teams from Tbilisi, Georgia. She combines deep Ruby/Rails and GraphQL backend expertise with modern front-end skills in React, TypeScript, Next.js and legacy frameworks, making her effective across greenfield and maintenance projects. Polly has a strong focus on design principles, test coverage and thoughtful refactoring, often improving long-lived codebases and automating deployments for greater reliability. As a former team lead at Republic she guided feature design, sprint planning and post-mortems while touching most core product areas like accreditation and investor flows. Her freelance work and long history with PHP frameworks show an unusual breadth—comfortable switching between Rails, PHP, and JS stacks to solve business problems. She pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and system-level thinking, consistently prioritizing maintainability and measurable process improvements.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
88 Grammar SchoolMaster of Engineering - MEng, Master of Engineering - MEng at Omsk State Pedagogical University (OSPU)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
devise6
validation6
email-validation6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
makevnina/crm
Dec 2011 - Jun 2012
Contributions:69 commits in 5 months
makevnina/movies-test
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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