Ven Korolev
Engineering Manager at Unicorndev
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVen Korolev is an Engineering Manager with over a decade of hands-on software and people leadership, currently building the Core App team at Bitvavo and previously leading cross-functional mobile and web engineering efforts across fintech, telecom, and insurance. He combines deep full‑stack and mobile expertise (React, React Native, TypeScript, Node.js) with strong DevOps and CI/CD practice to deliver high‑quality, reliable systems and improved developer experience. Known for growing small teams into high‑performing units, Ven blends technical ownership—often contributing key code and libraries—with empathetic management that prioritizes learning and wellbeing. An active open‑source contributor, his React integrations for Google Places have influenced mainstream front‑end tooling, and his writing reaches a wide engineering audience. Curious about AI, blockchain and functional programming, he brings a practical, systems‑level perspective to adopting new domains.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Russian
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Github Skills (8)
component-development10
javascript10
google-places-api10
prop10
front-end-development10
google-maps-api10
react10
props10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ErrorPro/react-google-autocomplete
May 2016 - Jan 2023
React components for google places API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 81 commits, 55 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ven primarily focused on developing and improving React components for Google Places API integration. Their work involved modifying existing components, adding new features like custom components, and addressing prop type warnings. They also implemented features such as passing component restrictions and bounds to the autocomplete component and made updates to address potential autofill issues. Further, they made updates to include the fields prop and to expose the autocomplete service to allow for additional functionality and improved code maintainability.
google-places-apireact-componentreact-componentsgoogle-autocompletereact
ErrorPro/relay
Nov 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
data-drivenreactrelayreact-applicationsjavascript-framework
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