Slava Knyazev

Slava Knyazev has deep expertise in web technologies, having done design work for top tech companies such as Amazon and Airbnb. He brings with himself best practices learned the hard way and insights into designing robust and maintainable software.

Developing front-end for LaunchDarkly's core product using React, TypeScript, GraphQL.

• Proactively identified areas for improvement and refactored implementations with team buy-in
• Worked with Open Source projects to implement bug fixes
• Filled gaps within end-to-end tests

Building retail sports betting platform from greenfield to production using React, GraphQL, TypeScript.

• Led development of the Over-The-Counter patron betting experience
• Established standards for developing reusable components between projects
• Promoted the use of defensive programming in critical transaction workflows

Delivering features improving Kubernetes cluster observability, management, and developer experience as part of the AWS EKS Console team. Main technologies included JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, and AWS Lambda.

• Led the systematic transition to TypeScript for ~100k lines of code
• Contributed to external open-source libraries to solve internal challenges
• Assessed customer impact from operational faults and investigated root causes

Developed internal developer tooling and marketing software within Airbnb using React, GraphQL, Kotlin.

Shipped full-stack React + Node.js Lambda solution for managed PPP loan forgiveness applications.

Developed accessible and highly interactive data visualizations using D3.js, React.js, and .NET Core.

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Designed a minimal, lock-free library for managing shared access to resources.