Summary
Slava Knyazev is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience building resilient front-end systems and developer-focused tooling, currently shaping product at Robinhood. He is a T-shaped engineer whose primary expertise is React and TypeScript, complemented by strong backend skills in Node.js and .NET and practical DevOps know-how around CI/CD and deployment reliability. Past roles at LaunchDarkly, AWS EKS Console, and theScore highlight his ability to refactor large codebases, improve developer experience, and take greenfield projects to production. He routinely contributes to open-source dependencies to solve internal problems and documents his experiments and learnings on his blog and GitHub. Based in Metro Manila with Canadian background, Slava blends enterprise-scale experience and freelance scrappiness, often automating tedious workflows and building observability into critical transaction paths.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Computer Science, DEC, Computer Science at Cégep Heritage College
DES, Programme Micro-Informatique, DES, Programme Micro-Informatique at Polyvalente de l'Érablière
Russian, English, French