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

Led the frontend department and maintained a 200k+ LoC React application serving 18M users. Ran 100+ A/B tests and shipped 500+ features.

Apr 2014 — Nov 2018

CTO @ Oleg Chulakov Studio

Built the web dev department from scratch, grew it to 5th place in the country. Led a team of 30 people.

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 The Witcher 3 changed everything

📚 Books 230+ books. Feynman is my hero

✈️ 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