Vlad Shilov

Hi, I'm Vlad Shilov

Engineering leader & open source author with 18 years of experience. Creator of tools downloaded 77M+ times per month.

Valencia, Spain
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Career

Experience

Sep 2022 — Present
CTO & Co-Founder @ Variant.net

Leading a team of 20 engineers building pdf.net and resume.co.

Dec 2018 — Aug 2022
Frontend Team Lead @ Career.io

Owned the frontend for an 18M-user product. Shipped 500+ features and drove 100+ A/B experiments.

Apr 2014 — Nov 2018
CTO @ Oleg Chulakov Studio

Grew the web development department from zero to 30 engineers, ranking the studio among the top 5 in the country.

Jul 2011 — Mar 2014
Team Lead @ Ruformat

Led a team of 10 developers building e-commerce platforms and high-traffic web applications.

2008 — Jun 2012
Freelance Developer

Built websites and web applications for local businesses and startups as a freelance full stack developer.

Open Source

77M+ downloads/month

👑 colord

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

62M downloads/month

🎨 react-colorful

The tiniest and fastest color picker component for React.

15.6M downloads/month

Community

Activities

⚡ HolyJS Conference Program committee member 🎙️ Goose&Duck — Open Source Podcast author 🎤 Do not choose dependencies blindly Conference talk 🎧 Remote Talk #24 Podcast guest 🎥 Web Standards #248 Podcast guest 🎥 Frontend U #183 Podcast guest ✍️ Tiniest CSS-in-JS for React Blog post on DEV.to

Toolkit

Skills & Technologies

Frontend
React Next.js TypeScript Zustand React Query SSR ISR Vite esbuild Performance Canvas Three.js UI Animations Storybook
Testing
Vitest Jest Playwright Testing Library
Backend
Node.js Ruby on Rails NoSQL Firebase Lambdas REST APIs Edge Computing AI / LLM Integration
Infrastructure
Google Cloud Cloudflare Vercel Monorepos Turborepo CI/CD GitHub Actions Sentry
Design & Product
Product Thinking A/B Testing Amplitude GrowthBook Figma Design Systems
Leadership
Technical Strategy Team Management Hiring Mentoring Code Review Culture

Beyond Code

Hobbies

🎮 Gaming Wind's howling
📚 Books 230 and counting, sci-fi addict
✈️ Travel 72 cities across 27 countries
⛷️ Skiing Just love going fast downhill
🚴 Cycling Valencia has great routes
🦆 Rubber Ducks 60+ collection and growing
🎲 Board Games Orléans is the current obsession