Vsevolod Zaikov
Software Developer at Doist
Florence, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVsevolod Zaikov is a pragmatic software developer with 11 years of experience and a strong focus on front-end and Node.js development, currently building Electron-based apps at Doist. He has a track record of creating projects from scratch and modernizing legacy code—shaping architecture, UI libraries and scaffolding to speed product delivery across teams. At Contentful he ran experimentable, easily toggled frontend solutions and engaged end-to-end from design to analysis, and at 4finance he led platform-wide SDK and Node.js integration work. Vsevolod is an active open-source contributor and maintainer of small libraries, and his technical writing (blog.bloomca.me) has reached Hacker News front page and JavaScript Weekly readers, accumulating 100k+ views. He brings strong stakeholder communication and a preference for ownership over task execution, frequently extracting reusable libraries from product codebases. Based in Florence, Oregon, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an eye for test coverage and reliability, exemplified by his focused QA/test contributions to the deepmerge library.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished Bachelor's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Unfinished Bachelor's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Russian, English, Czech, German
Stackoverflow
1,784reputation
950kreached
33answers
6questions
redux
top-5%
Github Skills (10)
testing10
javascript10
redux9
nodejs9
html5-audio6
audio-player6
html6
jquery6
react6
immutablejs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TehShrike/deepmerge
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
A library for deep (recursive) merging of Javascript objects
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Vsevolod primarily focused on writing and maintaining tests for the `deepmerge.all` function. They added tests to cover various scenarios, including error handling, and functionality checks, particularly around merging arrays with and without the clone option. Several commits are dedicated to refining these tests, fixing inconsistencies, and ensuring comprehensive coverage of the core merging logic. The user's work ensures the library functions correctly in different situations.
lodashjavascriptrecursivemergingmerge
JessArt/backend_api
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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