Vlad Shilov

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Summary

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Rockstar

Vlad Shilov is a Head of Engineering with 14+ years leading frontend teams and shipping consumer-facing SaaS products, currently driving multiple document-focused B2C products from Valencia. He combines hands-on React expertise with strong product delivery—over 800 projects completed, 500+ feature releases and 100+ A/B tests at Resume.io for an 18M-user product. A former CTO who built and scaled engineering organizations to 30 people and national rankings, he now focuses on high-performance UI, micro-libraries and pragmatic architecture. An active open-source contributor to popular tiny front-end projects (colord, react-colorful, wouter, use-debounce), he brings deep knowledge of color handling, hooks and ultra-small library design. Outside product delivery he contributes to the HolyJS program committee and hosts a podcast, blending community leadership with continuous craft improvement.

15 years of coding experience

Github Skills (20)

hex10

javascript10

color-theory10

react-hooks10

rgba10

routers10

css10

typescript10

router10

shex10

typescript-types10

rgb10

preact10

typescripts10

react10

Programming languages (5)

TypeScriptShellCSSBikeshedJavaScript

Github contributions (5)

omgovich/colord

Nov 2020 - Aug 2022

👑 A tiny yet powerful tool for high-performance color manipulations and conversions

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:11 releases, 43 reviews, 179 commits in 1 year 8 months

Contributions summary:Vlad primarily worked on implementing and improving color manipulation and conversion tools within the "colord" repository. They focused on parsing various color formats, including hex, RGB, HSL, HWB and CMYK strings, as well as providing methods for generating color palettes. Key contributions involved converting and displaying different color models, demonstrating a strong understanding of color theory and front-end development principles.

css-colorparserconverterhexhsl

omgovich/react-colorful

Jul 2020 - Aug 2022

🎨 A tiny (2,8 KB) color picker component for React and Preact apps

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:14 releases, 163 reviews, 433 commits in 2 years 1 month

Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed to the development of UI components, specifically focusing on color picker functionalities. Their commits showcase the implementation of new components like "Hue and Saturation" and modification of existing ones such as "ColorPicker". They appear to have refactored the code to improve performance by removing the dependency on `prop-types` and optimizing CSS. Furthermore, the user was involved in creating a demo page, indicating a focus on showcasing the library's features and usability.

color-pickerpreactreacttinyreact-component

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