Olex Ponomarenko
Sr. Software Engineer, Design Systems at Vanta
Portland, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolOlex Ponomarenko is a senior full-stack engineer and founder who specializes in design systems and the design–dev borderlands, with 13 years of experience building performant, accessible front-end experiences. He currently leads design-systems work at Vanta and runs a small studio, team.pizza, delivering bulletproof components and early-stage product work. Previously he scaled web platforms and engineering teams at The Infatuation and Attune, driving SSR, caching, compliance, and form-platforms that supported millions of users and significant business outcomes. Known for hand-crafted CSS, browser-performance tuning, and thoughtful JS architecture (React, Vue3, TypeScript), he also brings practical backend and tooling experience in Python, Redis, and Java. A designer-developer at heart, he dabbles in font design and music, and prefers small, highly collaborative teams over large corporate environments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyR2D2 School of MusicBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Virginia
Russian, Ukrainian, German, English
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Github Skills (38)
side-bar9
javascript9
typescript9
css9
nodejs9
react9
angular9
web-framework8
launchdarkly8
grid8
thunderbird8
utilities7
responsive7
web-developer7
web-performance7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cmrnh/status.pizza
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
expressjsexpress-frameworknode-jsjavascriptexpress
Thinkful-Ed/star-wars-responsive-challenge
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Responsive grid excercise for new Unit 1 in FEWD-v5
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 8 months
unit-1unitexcerciseresponsive-gridresponsive
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