Vladimir Kolesnikov
Director Of Engineering at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Kolesnikov is a director of engineering with 17 years of experience building and scaling high‑performing orgs and leading cross‑functional execution for hundreds of engineers. At Meta he moved AR and community products from prototype to shipping, scaling teams from dozens to 100–200+ and driving program-level technical strategy for Quest 3 augments and unannounced AR glasses. He combines hands-on product and platform expertise across mobile, web, server and AR, and has a track record launching 0→1 products as well as growing existing ones with robust infrastructure. Earlier roles span full‑stack engineering and leadership at Facebook (Groups, Ads) and Yandex, plus influential open source work in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem. Based in Seattle, he blends deep technical craftsmanship—like early JS toolchain work and sdoc contributions—with people leadership in large, fast-moving orgs. He’s equally comfortable shipping developer tooling and consumer experiences, with a pragmatic bias for scaling teams and systems.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Github Skills (7)
git10
document-generation10
github10
documents10
documentation10
ruby10
rdoc9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rails/sdoc
Mar 2009 - Aug 2012
Standalone sdoc generator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:157 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir's commits primarily focused on enhancing the sdoc documentation generator. They implemented functionality to automatically find the git root directory. The commits include changes in Ruby files to facilitate GitHub link generation and include path definitions relative to the repository. The changes included core functionality additions, with enhancements made to the options parsing and code objects.
documentation-generatorstandalonedocumentation-site
voloko/railsapi.com
Mar 2009 - Dec 2013
Contributions:125 commits in 4 years 9 months
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