Hello. I'm Miloslav.
I am a frontend architect, curator and a team-lead. I ensure standards, high maintainability and good accessibility while keeping morale high and development costs low.
I have a computer science background and enjoy designing systems from the ground up when needed. When I do so, I strive for declarativity and keeping the design simple and approachable. I never hesitate to educate the team and to make sure they believe in what they do.
I make Open Source apps and write essays in my spare time. The common themes of all my projects are usually the following:
- Keeping the interface really simple, declarative and magical, allowing as much people as possible to use it;
- Metaprogramming, achieving more with fewer tools and smaller boilerplate;
- Privacy, also keeping it less radical and more approachable for general audience;
- Cognitive functions and biases, human-computer interactions;
- General concepts between programming and philosophy: balance between declarative and imperative, systems theory, general computer science.
Facts
- 🥇 The Code of Conduct Generator — Product of the Day Award
- 😸 Sleeep (sleep schedule adjuster & fixer) — Golden Kitty nomination in Health&Fitness
- ✍️ Scalable architecture without magic (and how to build it if you’re not Google) — Dev.to Must-Read, Dev.to Top 7 Authors Badge, Hashnode Must-Read. Also published in China by InfoQ
- 💼 Worked for Uploadcare (curator, product owner), Studybay USA (tech evangelist) and Openland (Frontend developer)
- 📈 alpine-curl-bash — 500,000+ pulls on Dockerhub
- I tried to build a website generator, failed miserably because of depression and wrong treatment and gave an interview about it
- 👩🎤 PiterCSS and WSD speaker
- 🤓 Got certificates from Microsoft (x1), Maryland (x1), Stanford (x3), Berkeley (x2) and others. PDFs are below in the bio section.
Links
- 💵 Support me
- 📄 CV
- 📱 VK
- 💻 GitHub
- 💬 Telegram
- 📮 Email — [email protected]
- 🌃 Tumblr (photos)
Experience and bio
- Newbie 👶
- Got my first PC, it had a Pentium I 100mHz and 8mb RAM. Had a good time playing retro games
- Started learning Pascal
- Left Pascal club for ITMO coding club
- Started learning C
- Started learning C++
- Switched to Linux
- Passed school IT exams with highest result possible
- Left school after 9th grade for ITMO, successfully enrolled
- Got my first laptop
- Got Stat2.1x: Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics and Stat2.2x: Introduction to Statistics: Probability certificates from Berkeley University
- Started learning Python
- Learned Git
- Created a fully-functional programmable computer from logic gates in LabView. It's got its own assembly language
- Got Interactive Python certificate from Rice University
- Implemented Game of Life in Python, got interested in cellular automata
- Had a great time learning CS, Discrete Math, algorithms, databases, paradigms and a lot of other things
- Got LFS101x: Introduction to Linux certificate from Linux Foundation
- Got DEV210x: Introduction to C++ certificate from Microsoft
- Completed the King Challenge in C++, got 100%
- Began to understand stuff 🤔
- Got UML, SQL and Relational Algebra certificates from Stanford University
- Learned ActionScript, created Bold Stepper
- Learned LaTex and MathLab
- Learned Scrum, Agile and more of UML
- Learned Subversion
- Got T002x: Mobile Computing and CS Principles certificate from Trinity College
- Hired by Apiona
- Learned PHP
- Visited my first local meetup ever, SPB Frontend
- Read The Code Complete
- Started to learn from Hexlet, never missed a podcast
- Successfully passed HTML Academy intensive course, learned frontend basics
- Created js-battle, my first JS project ever
- Created Pics, learned NodeJS basics
- Switched from coding to engineering 🧠
- Started to get certificates at SoloLearn
- First public talk at Web Standards Days, it was successful
- Left Apiona for Under Construction
- Learned React and Redux
- Successfully passed React Intensive course by javascript.ru
- Complete switch to web technologies ⚡
- Did some research on CRDT
- Got Cybersecurity certificate from University of Maryland
- Wrote some essays on cybersecurity
- Joined FreeCodeCamp community
- Was invited to talk at RIT conference at Skolkovo, Moscow. Denied that because of my graduation
- Created Dolphin and graduated with A mark. Learned a lot about persistency, fundamental paradigms incompatibility and performance on the web, data models and data binding
- Tried to create Kardinal (now dead), faced another fundamental incompatibilities. Learned a lot about paradigms
- DWYL invites me to join. Accepted them
- Netology offers me an expert position. Denied them
- Talked at PiterCSS
- Passed Sit the Test
- Veniamin Vekk mentioned me at his design block
- Created large Baumeister manual, Russian
- Learned a lot from DESTROYALLSOFTWARE. Love it
- Scored the highest possible result (C2) in IELTS test
- Left Under Construction, hired by Bizon Insurance Group
- Learned Clojure and ClojureScript
- Learned CouchDB, PouchDB, Docker and Ansible
- Able to implement almost any web product 👽
- Created a dockerfile that got 100k+ pulls
- Left Bizon Insurance Group. Learned a lot. The most valuable experience of my carreer
- Got myself a shiny new MacBook 12", my first Apple computer ever
- Created SeoBlock from the idea of Serge Soloview. My first browser extension ever
- Got familiar with Strapi, absolutely awesome tool
- Met Martyn
- Talked at PiterCSS (eight-pixel grid)
- Met Sveta
- Got LinkedIn profile
- Started a dev.to profile and got my first 250 followers in no time
- Wrote an article about PWA Responsiveness
- Created a Decider pattern and library. The biggest GitHub stars I ever got
- Launched Rhittm — an app that suggests you Instagram hashtags and the best time to post. I spent only one day creating it and it blasted up to 128 users in just the day after, even without an official ProductHunt release
- Wrote a PWA Checklist article. Two thousand views in two days
- My article on scalable architecture blasted off like Falcon Heavy and I made it to the dev.to main page. Amazing experience. Got 500 followers
- Got 1500 followers on dev.to
- Wrote a love letter to Verdana
- Created The Code of Conduct generator. Got the Product of the Day award with basically a six lines of javascript
- Passed 2000 followers on dev.to
- The beta version of Noo, my password manager, is live
- Talked at WebDevSummit, everyone was amazed, got some testimonials
- Joined Ostrovok as a teamlead, moved to Moscow
- Started to cure depression
- Left Ostrovok, moved back to Saint-Petersburg
- Released sleeep
- Joined Openland
- Sleeep is nominated for the Golden Kitty award
- Left Openland for Studybay
- Created Aniro
- Created Normilio
- Gave an interview about my failed startup
- Created Modulus
- Created Formie
- Created PWAGYM and pwacss
- Introduced Pragmatic Beauty
- Created Extensio
- Launched my own newsletter (now closed)
- Created a Telegram stickerpack
- Switched to Firefox and DuckDuckGo
- Created Cosmopolite
- Created Regulatio
- Created Potion
- Created image-zoom
- Created Butter
- Became a dev.to moderator
- Left Studybay
- Created a Hashnode blog and a Medium page
- Created Buy Me a Coffee page
- Created an NPM page
- Made it to Top 50 of Hashnode, became an ambassador
- My article published in China by InfoQ
- Uploadcare reaches me out to offer me to make Pixelhunter, my very first paid project where I can fully retain my product vision
- My Dockerfile alpine-curl-bash makes it to 500.000+ pulls
- Deleted my Medium page
- Pixelhunter gets crazy traffic and makes it to Product of the Day #3 and to the Product Hunt newsletter
- Started learning product marketing
- Left dev.to and Hashnode