Vladimir Klepov is an engineering manager and senior frontend specialist with 12 years of experience building high-impact web products and teams, currently launching a fintech MVP at Ozon that serves thousands and improves seller loyalty. He blends hands-on React and Svelte development with platform-level improvements—reducing API boilerplate via REST-to-GraphQL tooling and cutting CI/CD E2E time to three minutes while lowering flakiness. Previously he led the open-source VKUI React component library used across vk.com and by 5K+ external developers, driving testing to 80% coverage and shipping complex animations and gesture-driven features. Vladimir cares deeply about developer experience, having tuned build systems for 5x faster rebuilds and written ergonomic APIs and monitoring that cut critical errors sevenfold in production. He shares knowledge through a popular technical blog (10K+ monthly readers) and prolific OSS contributions, and holds strong academic grounding in algorithms and statistics from Russia’s top schools. Open to EU relocation, he combines product-minded leadership with a knack for pragmatic engineering that scales teams and user impact.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at ITMO University
VKUI – это набор React-компонентов, с помощью которых можно создавать интерфейсы, внешне неотличимые от наших iOS и Android приложений.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:7 releases, 269 reviews, 1206 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily focused on front-end development within the VKUI repository. They implemented and fixed UI components, addressing issues related to font sizes, layout, and visual presentation of elements like `PanelHeader` and `Gallery`. The commits also involved improvements to user interactions, such as preventing clicks after gallery slides and handling touch gestures. Furthermore, the user added features like adaptivity to the components and added tests for testing.
Contributions:35 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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Vladimir Klepov - Engineering Manager at Ozon Банк