Sasha R
Open Source Developer at Figma
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSasha R is an open-source-focused software engineer with six years of full‑stack experience, currently contributing to Payload CMS and working as an Open Source Developer at Figma in the UK. They specialize in TypeScript, React, Next.js and backend systems (Postgres/Mongo), with a track record of fixing nuanced framework bugs, improving pagination and ID generation, and tightening Postgres schema correctness in the popular payloadcms/payload repo. Sasha has shipped production web apps across agency and product teams and brings a practical blend of frontend polish and backend robustness. Trained in telecommunications engineering at Kyiv Polytechnic, they pair formal systems thinking with hands-on contribution to an influential open-source Next.js fullstack framework.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Бакалар, Інженерія та програмування телекомунікаційних систем, Бакалар, Інженерія та програмування телекомунікаційних систем at Київський Політехнічний Інститут імені Ігоря Сікорського
Github Skills (16)
debug10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
web-framework9
schema-design8
database-schema8
db-schema8
database-design8
schema8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
payloadcms/payload
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:164 reviews, 490 PRs, 1013 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sasha primarily focused on bug fixes and implementing features related to the Payload CMS framework. Their contributions involved resolving issues with generated IDs for array items, passing arguments for pagination in list views, and removing incorrect module imports. They also addressed UI-related fixes, such as ensuring the titleField is not empty and passing cellComponentProps, and made database-related fixes by validating and modifying Postgres schemas.
cmspayloadcmsexpressreact-jsdashboard
r1tsuu/constructor-ui
Oct 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 2 PRs, 231 pushes in 5 months
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