Ainar Garipov
Software Engineer at Adguard Software Limited
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Top expert inHome Server and Self-Hosting Solutions
Ainar Garipov is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems and Go development, currently based in Cyprus. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects including the Go language and AdGuard repositories, where his work spans protocol support (DoQ, DoH, DoT), race-condition fixes, and performance-minded refactors. Ainar’s contributions to golang/tools and gopls show a focus on improving static analysis and developer tooling through new analyzers and vet fixes. He blends practical production fixes—bug patches, logging and goroutine management—with deeper protocol-level enhancements in DNS tooling. Notably, his work on AdGuardHome and dnsproxy highlights an ability to improve stability and add emerging protocol support in widely used networking software. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic, detail-oriented engineer who improves systems at both the language and application layers.
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Github Skills (35)
dns-over-https10
programming-language10
multithreading10
testing10
proxy10
goroutine10
go10
dns10
network-protocol10
golang10
error-handling10
refactoring10
concurrency10
postgresql9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 36 reviews, 795 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ainar's commits primarily focused on modifying and improving the AdGuard Home's core functionality related to DNS and network traffic. Their work included modifying existing code, using existing libraries, and adding support for different protocols such as DoQ (DNS over QUIC). They also fixed a few bugs and refactored several core methods and structures to improve performance.
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AdguardTeam/dnsproxy
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Simple DNS proxy with DoH, DoT, DoQ and DNSCrypt support
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 32 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ainar primarily contributed to the core functionality of the DNS proxy. Their work involved fixing race conditions, improving naming conventions, and optimizing performance, specifically related to proxy restart and goroutine management. The user also implemented improvements to logging, and added functionality to handle DNS-over-QUIC sessions, expanding the proxy's supported protocols. These changes indicate a focus on improving the stability, efficiency, and protocol support of the DNS proxy.
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