Sergei Iastrebov
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSergei Iastrebov is a senior staff-level software engineer with 15+ years of experience building high-scale frontend and platform systems used by millions at Meta, Yandex, VK, and other companies. He excels at multi-team, cross-org initiatives—having led quality and automation programs that grew owned test coverage from hundreds to 100k+ cases and onboarded 30 teams across five orgs. A pragmatic advocate for AI-assisted development, he drove adoption from ~40% to ~80% usage and helped scale tools to 400+ engineers across EMEA, applying AI to large-scale code optimization and high-volume reviews. His work spans performance-critical web systems (sub-60ms load targets), reusable UI tooling, and multimedia platform integrations that materially increased user and creator engagement. Known as a hands-on technical reviewer and mentor, he combines deep execution with the ability to align teams without formal authority. Outside product delivery, he contributes to the engineering community through mentorship, conference talks, and learning materials, and holds a UK Global Talent visa.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Computer Science in Economics, Master's degree Applied Computer Science in Economics at Smolensk University of HumanitiesBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Smolensk Polytechnic CollegeDoctor's Degree Information Security, Doctor's Degree Information Security at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Japanese, English, Russian
Stackoverflow
171reputation
9kreached
5answers
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Github Skills (47)
web-components10
gulp-task9
javascript-engine8
jquery-plugin7
single-page7
gulp7
chakracore7
iframe6
nginx6
cpp6
js6
api6
gis6
mamp-pro6
http6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CrazySquirrel/EverCookie
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:54 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 2 years 2 months
javascripttypescript
CrazySquirrel/CSLogger
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
loggerlogging
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