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

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.

77M+ downloads/month

Activities

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

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