Nik Mostovoy
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNik Mostovoy is a Staff Software Engineer at Meta with 14 years of experience specializing in frontend architecture, infrastructure, and performance optimization. Based in London, he has a track record of driving large migrations to React, maintaining a 100+ component UI toolkit, and improving SSR latency and memory stability at scale. At HeadHunter he led architecture efforts that cut p95 response times and boosted team delivery metrics while building monitoring, testing, and CI practices. He contributes open-source React utilities—authoring a well-tested debounce hook and throttled callback implementations—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on developer ergonomics. Known as a repeated top lecturer and mentor, he blends hands-on coding with teaching and process design. Notably, he combines deep performance tuning with front-end DX improvements, bridging low-level infra concerns and UX-facing code.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist (5 years of education), System and internet development, 5, Specialist (5 years of education), System and internet development, 5 at Московский Государственный Университет Экономики, Статистики и Информатики (МЭСИ)Frontend разработка, Frontend разработка at Школа frontend-разработчиков HeadHunter
Русский, English
Stackoverflow
2,242reputation
241kreached
48answers
3questions
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
react-hooks10
testing10
typescript10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
enzyme10
react10
react-transition-group6
jsdoc6
react-ref6
draft-js6
redux6
eslint6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xnimorz/use-debounce
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
A debounce hook for react
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 34 reviews, 187 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nik primarily contributed to the development of a React hook for debouncing, as indicated by the repository description and commit messages. Their work involved refactoring the initial implementation, improving the hook's functionality by adding features like `maxWait` and options for leading/trailing edge execution, and enhancing its robustness through unit testing and typescript implementation. The user also addressed and fixed several potential issues. They added a useThrottledCallback implementation as well.
debouncereactreact-hooksreact-hookusedebounce
xnimorz/stackoverflow-example
Feb 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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