About.

Oleks is a Frontend Engineer based in Berlin πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ.

Originally from beautiful Kyiv, Ukraine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦βœŠ after moving to Berlin in 2015 he worked for a number of well-known German companies. From FoodTech to, BPMN and FinTech, and most recently improving presentations experience at Pitch.

He got into Frontend development with React on the edge of 2015/2016, fell in love with it, and been using it in production at every job.

Work Experience

  1. Frontend Engineer at Staffbase.com

    Leading Employee Communications Platform. Revolutionize Your Internal Communications.

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  2. Senior Software Engineer at Pitch.com

    Pitch helps teams build better presentations: collaboratively, effectively, and beautifully.

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  3. Senior Frontend Engineer at Elinvar.de

    WealthTech Platform as a Service for business models in asset & wealth management.

  4. Frontend Engineer at SAP Signavio

    Business process management software for Enterprise Businesses. German πŸ¦„ acquired by SAP for $1.2B.

  5. QA Automation Engineer at HelloFresh

    HelloFresh is the leading global provider of fresh food at home. Successfully completed exit on IPO.

Before frontend development he worked in test automation, developing a testing framework(s) and building CI/CD pipelines from scratch. Quality assurance experience helps him better understand user workflows/needs and construct test scenarios on the fly. QA way of thinking led to catching many bugs before they landed in production.

Most of the time programming he's working with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, GraphQL, and most recently with Clojure(Script). Parentheses for the win!

In free time, he enjoys contributing to OSS, writing blog posts, doing voluntary work, creating video courses, and teaching.