Святослав Дёмочкин

Frontend function across the IT directorate's products. Led 4 cross-functional teams: tech leads, frontend engineers and UX/UI designers. Full ownership of the function — from strategy and hiring to technical decisions and user outcomes. Acted as the owner of the UI domain, balancing business, user and team interests.

Products
• Led the full UI lifecycle — from low-fidelity prototypes to producti

Led the frontend function across the IT directorate’s products, owning the UI domain from strategy and hiring through technical decisions and user outcomes. Managed four cross-functional teams and introduced processes and automation to improve UI quality and delivery speed.

VK fintech — Cashout: a full self-service money-withdrawal product where creators pick a monetisation earnings source on the VKontakte social network and cash out the amount they want. A high-load service within the VK ecosystem. Promoted from senior frontend developer.
• Led a cross-functional development team (4 engineers) and the Cashout product.
• Drove the product core — self-service withdraw

• Built high-load VK fintech UIs — a product inside one of the largest social networks in the region (~100M MAU).
• Introduced feature flags: multiple releases per day and selective rollout of functionality to specific user segments.
• Built the Cashout service UI.

Team building automation and management tooling for data-centre IT infrastructure.
• Built and grew a UI component library: migrated most of the team's projects to it, multiplying the speed of new UI development.
• Mentored colleagues in backend and frontend development.
• Acted as product owner for several products — growth and support.
• Wrote external and internal operations documentation for s

Worked as a backend developer building and maintaining web application functionality using PHP and related tooling. Used automated testing and infrastructure configuration tools as part of development workflows.

Developing an internal accounting and warehouse system for company "Evropoly".
Building a custom access control manager.
Working closely with DataTables.js for custom data visualization.
Technologies: PHP 5.6 without framework, but with simple ORM-frame; JQuery; MySQL.
http://evropoly.com

Developing an internet-shop (euro hardwood floors and their samples).
Creating a SEO-manager with a set of r

Developing E-Commerce services, service for automation work with Yandex.Direct.
Used technologies:
- Backend.
PHP: 1C Bitrix, Yii, Yii2;
Database: MySQL
- Frontend.
JQuery, native JS, HTML5, SCSS

Earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Informatics at MEPhI from 2013 to 2017.