Ruslan Spivak
Director, SW Engineering at Opendoor
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRuslan Spivak is a director-level software engineering leader based in Old Toronto with 15 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and payment-critical systems. At Opendoor he leads SW engineering and previously grew Skylight’s engineering org; at OANDA he led a platform migration from Solaris to RHEL7 and managed fund/account systems that processed over $1M daily. He blends strategic leadership with hands-on backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to the public "Let's Build A Simple Interpreter" project—and is fluent in Python, SQL, Agile, and continuous delivery. He shares practical engineering insights at Beyond Basics and draws on a systems-oriented foundation from a BS in Computer Systems and Networks.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Systems and Networks, BS Computer Systems and Networks at National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'
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Github Skills (14)
algorithms10
lexical-analysis10
text-parsing10
parsing10
interpreter10
python10
sorting9
unit-testing6
zope6
xpath6
html5lib6
constructor6
django6
lxml6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rspivak/lsbasi
Jun 2015 - Mar 2020
Let's Build A Simple Interpreter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ruslan contributed to the implementation of a simple interpreter. They started by building a basic interpreter for integer arithmetic, then expanded it to handle subtraction and multi-digit numbers. Further commits added support for multiplication, division, and parentheses. The user's work demonstrates a clear progression in building a functional interpreter for mathematical expressions.
compilerprogramming-languageinterpreterlet
rspivak/sftpserver
Dec 2011 - Apr 2017
A simple single-threaded SFTP server
Contributions:23 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 years 4 months
sftp-serverweb-serversingle-threadedsftpserver
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