Denis Payas
Engineering Manager at Rakuten
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Payas is an Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience leading large-scale, high-load web projects and cross-functional teams in Japan's Rakuten and earlier at Yandex. He combines hands-on front-end expertise (TypeScript, React, Redux, Next.js, testing and performance optimization) with proven skills in establishing governance, mono-repos, CI/CD and design systems across multiple departments. Denis has built and scaled processes for resource procurement, SRE/DevOps practices and QA automation while managing 15+ person teams and driving people growth. He initiated and still runs a major internal front-end conference that attracted hundreds annually and created a Front-end Governance framework adopted across 5+ departments. Notably, he led migration of large product UIs to modern React stacks and introduced automated visual-regression and in-browser testing at scale. Comfortable both coding and shaping org-wide technical strategy, he blends deep engineering craft with pragmatic leadership.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Programming, Engineer's degree, Computer Programming at MIREA
English, Russian, Japanese
Github Skills (67)
csscomb10
vim10
front-end-development10
css10
testing9
bem9
javascript8
webpack8
act7
devtools7
angular7
html7
cucumber7
vue7
web-components7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
L0stSoul/vim-config
Dec 2013 - Mar 2021
Nice vim config for front-end development
Contributions:2 releases, 161 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years 4 months
front-end-developmentvim
L0stSoul/Processing
Aug 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:10 commits in 3 months
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