Sergei Chestakov is a software engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building consumer-focused products and collaborative developer tools. He spent four years at Replit shaping the future of online IDEs and has interned at Google and Expo, contributing to improved Smart Home integrations and cross-platform mobile tooling. An active open-source contributor, Sergei fixed platform-specific bugs and added cross-platform versioning features to the widely used expo/expo framework, showing attention to mobile consistency across Android, iOS, and web. He now runs Sergei Dot Com LLC, exploring and building new consumer products while drawing on a strong computer science background from UC Santa Barbara and UC Davis. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to bridge product needs with robust engineering solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of California, Davis
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
An open-source framework for making universal native apps with React. Expo runs on Android, iOS, and the web.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Contributions:18 commits, 41 PRs, 108 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sergei primarily contributed to the `expo/expo` repository by fixing bugs and implementing features within the mobile application framework. They addressed issues related to file system interactions on Android, specifically improving error handling and ensuring consistency with iOS behavior. They also added app and build version attributes to the Constants module, providing a unified API for accessing version information across platforms. Furthermore, the user fixed issues in the Native Component List app, specifically within the React Native Core section, by refactoring to use `SectionList` and addressing a WebView rendering bug.
Contributions:5 commits, 54 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
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