Kiril Knysh

Summary

15+ years of experience in software engineering, 12+ years of professional front-end and back-end development;
Highly skilled in performance analysis, issues investigation and fixing, good understanding of browsers and Node JS internals;
Solid background in full software development cycle;
Open source contribution, lecturer in "The Rolling Scopes School", "The Rolling Scopes" speaker, hackathons participant / organizer;
Passionate about self-development;

Experience

Founding Software Engineer

[Name coming soon] | Amsterdam | 2024 - now

[Description coming soon]

Setup development environment;
Initial end-to-end design of the product;

Software Engineer

Plaid | Amsterdam | 2021 - 2024

Expanding Plaid features to EU & UK. Team of 8 engineers. Technology stack: Node.js, Go, MySQL.

Feature / project tech lead;
Features full stack implementation;
Close communication with product managers, designers;

Software Engineer II / Senior Software Engineer

Uber | Amsterdam | 2019 - 2021

Building payments experience in the Web. Team of 9 engineers. Technology stack: JavaScript, Node.js, Fusion.js, React, Styletron, Baseweb.

Key developer, feature / project tech lead;
Participation in end-to-end design;
Close communication with product owners;
Driving projects development from Product document to post-rollout activities;

Chief Software Engineer

EPAM Systems | Amsterdam | 2016 - 2019

Building set-top box (STB) ("server"-side services + UI part hosted on STB). Team of 5 engineers. Technology stack: JavaScript, Node.js, WebSockets, mqtt, dbus, xmpp, unix.

Software architect, Key developer;
Participation in end-to-end design;
Performance optimizations;
Close communication with product owners and vendors;

Lead Software Engineer

EPAM Systems | Minsk | 2013 - 2016

Developing the UI part of STB. Team of 35 engineers. Technology stack: JavaScript, React, SASS, HTML.

Software architect, Key developer;
Feature owner
Performance optimizations;
Close communication with product owners and vendors;

Software Engineer

EPAM Systems | Minsk | 2013 - 2013

Blackberry 10 Webworks application. Team of 2 engineers. Technology stack: JavaScript, jQuery, BB10 WebWorks, HTML, CSS.

Key developer;
Performance optimizations;

Software Engineer

EPAM Systems | Minsk | 2011 - 2013

SPA with economic information. Team of 10 engineers. Technology stack: .NET (C#), ASP.NET, JavaScript, dojo, jQuery, SOAP, HTML, CSS.

Developer;
Cross-browser markup;

Pet projects

21/23 · https://2123.io/ · https://github.com/21-23 · Games for nerds

Architect, Developer, Product owner

21/23 is an organization of several developers that creates multiplayer real-time games with focus on education. Leading games: CSS QuickDraw, Lodash QuickDraw, WebSocket Challenge.

ov-reporter · https://github.com/kirilknysh/ov-reporter/

Developer

Automate monthly created OV-chipcard reports. Includes Google Chrome extension and cli tool.