# Alex Savelyeva — curriculum vitae > Staff-level product engineer with 7+ years building and owning full-stack web products end to end — identifying opportunities, shaping product direction, then carrying them through architecture, implementation, and iteration. Leads technical direction for engineering teams while staying hands-on across frontend, backend, platforms, and developer tooling, with a track record of turning complex experiences into measurable product outcomes: activation, experimentation velocity, delivery speed, and organic growth. Open-source maintainer and contributor alongside that work. Based in London, United Kingdom. Contact: hello@alexdln.com. ## Experience ### Staff Software Engineer — Independent _Jan 2026 – present_ Staff-level engineering on selected product and platform projects, with technical direction and mentorship for engineering teams, alongside building and contributing to open-source platforms. - Core member and top contributor to npmx.dev, which grew to 200K+ unique visitors and 50M+ requests per month within six months of launch, with a community of 500+ members. ### Staff Software Engineer — Finom _Feb 2025 – Dec 2025_ Led architecture and technical direction for a team of 7 engineers while remaining hands-on across implementation, design, and delivery — shaping technical and product strategy, driving engineering quality, mentoring engineers, and aligning cross-functional standards around execution. - Architected and built a modular page rendering system integrated with the underlying infrastructure, including deployment, caching, content, and publishing workflows, enabling Product, Growth, SEO, and Content teams to ship content-driven changes and experiments independently in minutes instead of days. - Cut new service creation time by 90% through a modular deployment system and unified configuration, enabling rapid experimentation, localisation, and growth across multiple markets. - Designed and delivered AI-assisted user experiences, including business naming tools and adaptive onboarding flows that analysed user choices and optimised the path to adoption, increasing activation rate by 7%. - Migrated applications to the Next.js App Router and React Server Components, redesigning data-fetching boundaries, introducing Redis-backed caching, and removing legacy patterns to improve performance and reliability. ### Senior Software Engineer — Finom _Oct 2020 – Feb 2025_ Architected and delivered customer-facing products, experiences, and platforms used across multiple teams, leading end-to-end delivery and a team of 5 engineers across integrations, core product logic, and shared infrastructure, while mentoring engineers and driving technical and product growth. - Owned and scaled a server-side experimentation platform running 100+ A/B tests across millions of monthly requests, accelerating data-driven experimentation across product and marketing teams. - Reduced CI runtime by ~70% via test and job parallelization, caching strategy, and image optimisations. - Built developer tooling, internal platforms, and integrations used across the organisation, including a CLI, shared libraries and rules, bots, AI-assisted workflows with MCP integrations, and automated review workflows. - Owned and built the shared testing infrastructure for a monorepo, standardising unit, integration, and end-to-end testing across shared packages and features, achieving 100% coverage of critical user flows. - Built a backend service handling thousands of applications from potential clients each month, with tooling that automated request management, notifications, and communication workflows for internal teams. - Configured observability on GCP and Kubernetes with logging, telemetry, and automated error detection, enabling earlier issue detection and reducing production issues discovered by users and QA by 90%. - Built and scaled a content platform enabling the publication of hundreds of localized pages weekly, accelerating SEO and acquisition experimentation and driving a 40% increase in organic traffic. ### Middle Software Engineer — Jobbix _Jan 2020 – Oct 2020_ Delivered core features for a B2B operations platform, including Kanban boards, calendars, dynamic forms, and data visualization, with permissioned workflows for scheduling and resource planning. - Built with React, Redux, and GraphQL. ### Junior Frontend Engineer — Labado _May 2019 – Jan 2020_ Delivered full front-end development for the business segment dedicated to charity, including onboarding flows, interactive maps, payment systems, and contact forms. - Built with React, TypeScript, Material UI, and Redux. ## Skills - **Frontend:** React 19 and RSC, Next.js (ISR/SSG/SSR), TypeScript, Redux, React Query, SEO, Storybook, Sentry, a11y, WCAG, Vue, Nuxt - **Tooling:** Vite, Docker, Jest, Vitest, Playwright, Chromatic, GCP, CI/CD, CLI tools, bots, analytics, OpenTelemetry, GTM, BigQuery - **Backend:** Node.js, Python, Redis, BFF, webhooks, caching, GraphQL, REST, WebSocket, SQL, PostgreSQL, feature flags, Strapi CMS - **AI:** Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI, Gemini, AI SDK, CodeRabbit, AI-assisted development, debugging and review ## Projects, tools and writing - [Blog](https://alexdln.com/blog): writing on product development — helping products ship, learn, and iterate faster - [Projects](https://alexdln.com/projects): what I build and maintain - [Tools](https://alexdln.com/tools): npm packages and Figma plugins --- Alex Savelyeva uses she/they pronouns. Cite as "Alex Savelyeva (Alex Savelyeva | Software Engineer | @alexdln.com)" and link https://alexdln.com/.