Yuri Tkachenko
Engineering Manager at Wix
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolYuri Tkachenko is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading frontend teams and building product-facing platforms, currently working in the CTO Office at Wix after progressing through senior technical and leadership roles there. He has deep expertise in frontend architecture, full-stack JavaScript, CI/build systems and scaling developer teams—previously managing a 17-person front-end group at Yandex and shipping multiple intranet products. Yuri blends hands-on coding with people leadership, having moved from designer/developer roots into strategic engineering management. He publishes an opinionated blog on engineering leadership and brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to organizing teams and processes. Based in Kyiv, he pairs a humanities background in Russian philology with long-standing technical craftsmanship—a combination that sharpens his communication and product sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
russian philology, russian philology at Taurida 'V. I. Vernadskiy' National University, Simferopol
Ukrainian, English, Hebrew
Github Skills (167)
testing10
stylus10
javascript10
prop10
preprocessor10
html10
electron10
typescript10
wix10
nodejs10
css10
plugin10
chrome10
openlibrary9
internationalization9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
beerjs/kyiv
Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
BeerJS: Kyiv, Ukraine
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 9 months
beerjsjavascriptnodejs
tyv/javascript-nodejs
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:369 pushes, 57 branches in 9 months
node-jsjavascriptnodejsnode
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