Valentine Panchin
Head Of Front End And Design at RAKIA GROUP
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolValentine Panchin is a seasoned front-end leader with 11 years of experience building user-focused web applications and design systems, currently heading Front End and Design at RAKIA GROUP in Dubai. He has a strong track record of taking products from prototype to production—establishing Figma systems, front-end architecture and i18n for a complex OSINT platform while managing and mentoring engineering teams. His background spans crypto/NFT product ownership at Metaplex and contributing UI improvements to large open-source projects like kepler.gl, where he implemented geocoding and richer tooltip interactions for geospatial data. Comfortable balancing hands-on React/CSS development with product strategy, he pairs a CS degree from Kyiv Polytechnic with a creative side—3D and illustration work—that informs polished, usable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, German, French
Github Skills (13)
datatip10
data-visualizations10
qtip10
javascript10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
tooltips10
react10
tooltip10
mapbox-gl9
geospatial9
map-box9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
keplergl/kepler.gl
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 22 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Valentine's primary contributions focus on enhancing the user interface and functionality of Kepler.gl. They implemented a geocoder search feature, adding components and integrating `react-mapbox-gl-geocoder`. Furthermore, the user addressed tooltip formatting issues, improving the presentation of data in popups. They also added features like pinned tooltips and value comparisons, enhancing the user's data interaction experience.
geospatialkeplerdata-setsmapboxscale
b2kdaman/kepler.gl
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
Contributions:8 PRs, 156 pushes, 21 branches in 9 months
wcswpsgeospatialdata-setskepler
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