Valera Zakharov
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Slack
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValera Zakharov is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience focused on mobile developer experience, CI, and test automation. At Slack he leads the Mobile Developer Experience team, setting technical vision and driving large cross-functional initiatives like CI migrations and performance automation for mobile clients. Previously at Google he helped build core Android testing infrastructure, including leadership on Espresso and the Android Test Support Library, and has a track record of scaling test systems to run hundreds of tests per second. Valera combines hands-on engineering, mentoring and hiring, and company-wide developer productivity leadership—he also runs Slack’s developer experience council and represents the company at conferences. He pairs deep infrastructure and testing expertise with a customer-focused mindset, regularly soliciting feedback from mobile engineers to shape tooling and workflows. Outside engineering he supports a local Ikebana studio, reflecting a practical, community-minded approach to work and life.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Industrial Management, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Industrial Management at Purdue University
Russian
Github Skills (93)
android-gradle-plugin10
xcuitest10
kotlin-library10
gcloud10
intellij-plugin10
android-lint10
logic10
android-test10
aws-lambda10
java10
bazel-rules10
android-app10
bazel10
gradle10
kotlin10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
valeraz/murron-trace-buildkite-plugin
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Buildkite plugin for sending granular metrics to datadog
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 41 pushes in 2 months
granularbuildkitesendingmetricsbuildkite-plugin
valeraz/airin
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024
Airin is a tool for the automated migration of Gradle Android projects to Bazel
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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