Viacheslav Slinko
Technical Unit Lead (Messenger & Calls) at Avito
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolViacheslav Slinko is a technical unit lead with 14 years of engineering experience and a strong track record of building scalable teams and systems where technology drives the business. He specializes in architecting microservice and microfrontend platforms, scaling units from solo teams to multi-team business units, and creating leadership pipelines—having trained over ten team leads and launched an internal program for promoting engineers to managers. Known for aligning product, business and engineering, he moves teams to higher quality without micromanaging by establishing leadership layers and repeatable processes. His open-source contributions span frontend and backend projects—including meaningful fixes to Redux and graphql-relay-js and practical DevOps improvements—that reflect a hands-on habit of improving developer workflows. Based in Moscow, he thrives in environments that value trust and autonomy and has repeatedly rescued underperforming units through clear technical vision and restructuring. An often-overlooked strength is his focus on making complex systems understandable and manageable, turning architectural investments into measurable speed and quality gains.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Университет "Синергия"
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
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python10
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ui-design10
wpgraphql10
redux10
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uid10
front-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
symfony10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
vslinko/obsidian-outliner
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Work with your lists like in Workflowy or RoamResearch
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:116 releases, 7 reviews, 417 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Viacheslav primarily worked on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Obsidian Outliner plugin. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to unfolding and cursor movement, as well as adding and improving core features, such as zooming and smart selection. Furthermore, the user implemented keyboard shortcut functionalities, including commands to fold, unfold, and select lines.
workflowyroamresearchmindmaplistsobsidian-plugin
sissbruecker/linkding
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 14 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Viacheslav contributed significantly to the development of features related to bookmark thumbnails and auto-tagging within the linkding bookmark manager. Their work included implementing thumbnail loading and management, optimizing the process with safer download methods, and adding test cases to ensure functionality. They also focused on implementing a system to automatically add tags to bookmarks based on URL patterns and refactoring existing code to support this feature.
hosteddockerbookmark-managerbookmark-servicebookmarks
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