Shmavon Gazanchyan is an engineering manager with 15 years of experience building and leading teams across cloud and digital consulting environments, currently managing engineering at Google from Dublin. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Deloitte Digital and Rackspace, combining hands-on backend and frontend development with long-term delivery and architecture ownership. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UI components for a popular React framework and refactored core authorization and layout logic in the Orchid Laravel platform, demonstrating attention to usability, security, and maintainability. Shmavon blends deep technical fluency with team mentorship and a pragmatic approach to shipping resilient systems, informed by academic training from Lancaster University and the Higher School of Economics.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Bachelor at State University — Higher School of Economics
A flexible and beautiful UI framework for React.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shmavon focused on enhancing the UI framework's pagination component. They implemented a "limit" option for pagination, allowing control over the number of displayed page links. The user also added edge indicators and refined the pagination logic to handle edge cases and even limit values correctly. Moreover, the user updated the documentation to include the new "limit" parameter and made necessary type conversions in the related form inputs.
Orchid is a @laravel package that allows for rapid application development of back-office applications, admin/user panels, and dashboards.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 16 PRs, 6 comments in 15 days
Contributions summary:Shmavon primarily focused on refactoring and improving the structure of the Orchid platform, specifically in the area of screen layouts and authorization. They moved and reorganized classes within the codebase to improve code organization and maintainability. Additionally, the user added a configuration option to toggle password reset functionality and protected against user enumeration during password reset attempts. The work involved modifying the core platform files and stubs.
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Shmavon Gazanchyan - Engineering Manager at Google