Aleksei Lin
Senior Golang Developer, Team Lead at Brabens Development
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
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Top SchoolAleksei Lin is a Senior Golang Developer and team lead based in St. Petersburg with 11 years of professional experience building web backends and leading engineering teams. Since 2016 he has driven Go-based projects at Brabens Development, combining hands-on systems programming with team and delivery ownership. He is an active open-source contributor to performance-sensitive Go tooling, notably improving goccy/go-json by fixing edge-case encoding bugs, enhancing decoder stability, and adding rigorous tests for custom types and omitempty behavior. Aleksei’s expertise lies in robust JSON serialization, backend optimization, and diagnosing subtle type-handling issues that surface in production. Colleagues value his blend of practical coding skill and steady technical leadership across small and mid-sized teams. He balances deep implementation knowledge with a pragmatic focus on test coverage and maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Камчатский Государственный Технический Университет (бывшее Петропавловск-Камчатское Высшее Инженерное Морское Училище)Калининградский Государственный Технический Университет (КГТУ)Московский технологический институт
Русский, Английский
Github Skills (9)
golang10
json10
go10
go-language10
testing9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
goccy/go-json
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Fast JSON encoder/decoder compatible with encoding/json for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 16 commits, 7 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily focused on enhancing the `go-json` library, a fast JSON encoder/decoder for Go. Their contributions included fixing encoding issues related to custom types and `omitempty` tags, adding comprehensive test cases for boolean and custom types. They also optimized the code and corrected errors in the decoder related to array handling. Their work demonstrates a deep understanding of Go and the intricacies of JSON serialization and deserialization.
gojson-encodergolanggolang-libraryjson
IncSW/geoip2
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
GeoIP2 Reader for Go
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 19 commits in 1 year 5 months
geoipgogolanggeoip2maxmind
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