Shy Alter
Senior Engineering Manager at Postman
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolShy Alter is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Milan with a decade of experience turning product ideas into shipped software and scalable teams. Currently at Postman after leading engineering at Orbit, he’s known for redesigning orgs and delivery processes to boost velocity, engineer growth, and team happiness. He blends hands-on product engineering—ranging from frontend UI polish on open-source projects like react-simple-chatbot and an HLS downloader extension—to strategic leadership across ML, backend and mobile teams at iGenius. Shy emphasizes outcome-based frameworks, engineering career ladders, and operational systems that make teams autonomous and effective. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs UI attention-to-detail with organizational design to move both code and people forward.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew, Italian
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
css10
styled-components10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
chrome-extension9
google-chrome-extension9
chatbot9
webextension9
react-router9
html8
heroku6
jsdoc6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
puemos/hls-downloader
May 2018 - Jul 2022
Web Extension for sniffing and downloading HTTP Live streams (HLS)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 1 review, 176 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Shy focused on restructuring and restyling the tab navigation components within the application. They moved view files, updated the styling of the tabs, including their visual appearance and behavior, and also modified the styling of the download row components. Furthermore, the user made changes to the app.tsx to use new react packages, and also upgraded babel for better performance. This work suggests a focus on enhancing the user interface and navigation experience of the HLS downloader extension.
hls-downloadersniffingstreamshls-streamredux-observable
LucasBassetti/react-simple-chatbot
Nov 2017 - Oct 2018
:speech_balloon: Easy way to create conversation chats
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Shy primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the React-based chatbot. Their contributions involved adding and modifying UI components, including icons and a microphone feature for voice input. They implemented animations and styling for visual feedback, such as a pulsing effect on the submit button during speech recognition. Furthermore, the user addressed minor bugs related to the user interface, ensuring the chatbot's responsiveness and overall user experience.
reactballoonchatconversationspeech-balloon
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