# Sahat Yalkabov > Principal Software Engineer at SIMON Markets LLC Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sahat Strong expertise with Node.js, React, Redux, ES6, Webpack and CSS • Author of multiple in-depth full-stack JavaScript tutorials • Author and contributor of several popular open-source projects on GitHub • Conference speaker at the Hack Summit 2014 • Tutorial speaker at the QCon New York 2014 • Speaker at AngularJS NYC and Node.js NYC Meetup groups • Participated in a few dozen hackathons in New York and San Francisco areas • Featured in JavaScript Weekly, Node.js Weekly and ng-newsletter weekly email newsletters • 5-star JavaScript Developer mentor on Codementor and Hackhands • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (November 27, 2017) ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ SIMON Markets LLC Jan 2022 – Present | New York, United States ### Staff Software Engineer @ SIMON Markets LLC Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | New York, NY ### Senior Front End Web Engineer @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY • Built the Enterprise Management Reporting System EMRS on the Web for Bloomberg Enterprise Solutions. ### Frontend Developer @ Zappos Family of Companies Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Las Vegas, NV • Led software architecture and design for Product Page, My Account, Favorites and Zappos Rewards pages. • Architected responsive desktop system for mobile Zappos.com and 6pm.com websites built with React, Redux, ES6, Webpack and CSS Modules. • Implemented legacy orders return process in the Java Spring MVC-based application. ### Contributor - Contract @ Udacity Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Remote • Assisted with the application architecture and design, performed GitHub code reviews, held video conference office hours, and mentored Udacity Blitz students in React, Node.js and JavaScript. ### Software Engineer - Contract @ Heap Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Remote • Designed and implemented the MailChimp API integration with the Heap Analytics dashboard for collecting email marketing data. ### Software Engineer - Yahoo Sports @ Yahoo Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles, CA • Played a crucial role in one of the largest Yahoo Sports redesign initiatives. • Involved in design, development and launch of "The Vertical with Woj" page. ### Software Engineer - Yahoo Developer Network @ Yahoo Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Sunnyvale, CA • Launched internationalized Yahoo Developer Network site for Taiwan and Hong Kong regions. • Overhauled the documentation web platform and improved perceived performance with client-side routing. • Designed and implemented site-wide contextual search using Yahoo BOSS Search API. • Led software architecture and design for the Yahoo Metrics Dashboard for tracking KPIs. ### Web Developer @ Recurse Center Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | New York, NY • Recurse Center is a free, self-directed, educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming, whether they've been coding for three decades or three months. • Built the Satellizer library for Angular.js that went viral on Hacker News and social media after the announcement. ### Frontend Developer - Intern @ Continuum Analytics, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Austin, TX • Assisted with design and development of a web-based Python data analysis cloud platform. • Proposed modular code architecture and modern JavaScript workflow for the Bokeh.js plotting library. ### Volunteer @ TechCrunch Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New York Helped out TechCrunch Dirsrupt NYC 2013 with general tasks, including help desk, reception, registration, taking care of vendor companies and the conference tear-down/packing. ### Research Intern @ City University of New York Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New York, NY C-SURP (CUNY Summer Undergraduate Research Program) is a summer research opportunity for undergraduate students from many diverse fields. During my time in this summer program, I worked closely with Professor Ioannis Stamos and graduate students on exploring various image segmentation techniques necessary for image classification and photorealistic modeling. ### Contributor @ Econofy Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New York, NY Econofy debuted at CleanWeb Hackathon in January 2012 where it was chosen best by both jury and audience. The idea behind Econofy is to help consumers find more energy efficient appliances and calculates ROI on buying them instead of keeping old ones. ### Research Intern @ CMACS 2012 | CUNY Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Bronx, NY Computational modeling and analysis of complex systems involves studying and performing simulations of cellular signaling pathways, in my case the T-cell receptor. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science The City College of New York Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ### Associate of Science (A.S.) in Computer Science Borough of Manhattan Community College Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sahatyalkabov - Website: http://sahatyalkabov.com - GitHub: https://github.com/sahat --- Source: https://flows.cv/sahat JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sahat/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23