Viktor Yakubiv

Skills

I work with IT-companies bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams, helping them clean and enhance user interfaces (UI), improve usability and accessibility. I express business goals in an inclusive UI while advocate the user needs. This is often so called user experience (UX) design.

Web development and design are primary areas of my expertise. Mostly, I work with JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React and Figma but I am not limited to these technologies.

I worked with Syncier, Knowledge Media institute, CreditGate24 and some others.

Projects

Security Tower

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Security Tower is an application for monitoring Kubernetes clusters, managing images and policies in a GitOps repository. I developed and maintained a design system in Figma, implemented the user interface in Vue.js.

  • Structured the design system, aligned it with the branding guidelines, created a components library in Figma and redesigned the application — improved usability, especially on small screens
  • Simplified the structure of the repository, reduced directory tree nesting levels and the total number of files by 33 % yet adding new features, reduced the number of static files by 60 % — enhanced development experience, speeded up application load time and reduced server load
  • Improved the code quality by setting up static code analysis for CSS and Vue templates, hardening rules for JavaScript and TypeScript code

The case study is available upon request.

CORE

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CORE is an aggregator of open access papers reaching 30 million monthly users. I developed and maintained a design system in Figma along with the front-end services infrastructure on React and Next.js.

  • Converted visual identity into a design system in Figma, translated the design system to a shared library of the UI components based on React — speeded up the design process and development, provided out-of-the-box inclusive components
  • Designed front-end projects infrastructure, established coding principles and guidelines — keeps the multi-repository codebase similar, simplifies code reviewing, enforces best practices
  • Designed and developed a banner adding credit to PDF documents and raising awareness of the Open Access and the project — increased daily website views by 5 %
  • Delivered 4 products with uniformed design, clear user flow and responsive layout

CreditGate24

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CreditGate24 is an online peer-to-peer loan financing system. I collaborated with the Swiss team helping to modernise the application technological stack, providing enough flexibility for the current business goals of the company as well as offer a wider functionality for user. The application was moved to a framework based on React and Redux.

Experience

Software Engineering and Design Consultant

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Volunteering

Mentor in Kottans, Head of Internet-Olympiad of Informational Technologies

Lecturer and Mentor, Kottans

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Kottans is a community of technologists who enjoy sharing knowledge. We help others to take their skills up to the next level by offering free courses, mentoring and a helping hand.

I mentor students, give lectures, help with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, design and related technologies.

Head of Web Committee, Problem Designer, Internet-Olympiad in Informational Technologies

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Internet-Olympiad of Informational Technologies was a contest for high school students, where participants could compete in two nominees: databases and web technologies.

I led the web direction of the contest, designed and wrote problems, organised the work of the jury.

Education

Master of Software Engineering, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

I successfully passed courses in web and typographic design as well as system and software design. I learned web technologies, operating systems, computer networks, and mathematics. Also, I have got solid computer science background in algorithms, mathematics, and programming languages.

I did research in recommender systems and web systems.