Aleksei Tirman
Support Engineer at JetBrains
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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RockstarAleksei Tirman is a Support Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining developer-facing systems, currently supporting the Kotlin ecosystem at JetBrains with a focus on the Ktor framework. He combines backend engineering, QA/test automation and user-facing support—troubleshooting production issues, fixing framework bugs, and ensuring smooth releases while engaging with the community on StackOverflow and Slack. His open-source contributions to Ktor include migrating frontend samples to use native WebSocket clients, improving server-side robustness, and maintaining integration tests, demonstrating an uncommon blend of protocol-level understanding and test-driven quality assurance. Prior roles span full-stack SaaS development, game scripting, EDI automation and freelance web work, giving him practical experience across PHP, JavaScript, Kotlin and tooling like Gradle and TeamCity. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, he also prototypes developer tools (for example a Ktor project web generator) showing a product-minded approach to developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
5,886reputation
218kreached
253answers
3questions
kotlin
top-1%
Github Skills (29)
kotlin10
asynchronous10
async10
testing10
http10
websocket10
http-client10
ktor10
junit10
web-framework10
back-end-development9
front-end-development9
backend9
docker8
gradlew8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ktorio/ktor-samples
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Sample projects for Ktor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 44 commits, 84 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily focused on enhancing the Ktor-samples repository, particularly the chat sample. Their work involved migrating the chat frontend from JavaScript to the Ktor websocket client, showcasing a strong understanding of client-server communication using WebSockets. Furthermore, they updated dependencies to newer Ktor versions and addressed compilation issues across various samples. The contributions included fixes for native client samples and adjustments to improve overall stability.
ktor
ktorio/ktor
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 221 reviews, 60 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Aleksei primarily focused on fixing code style issues and addressing bugs related to the Ktor framework's server-side components. This included modifications to the default server header, fixing style errors in the ktor-utils, ktor-io, ktor-network, and ktor-features modules. The contributions involved improving code quality and resolving issues related to features like sessions and content negotiation. Additionally, the user worked on optimizing and improving the behavior of the client engine.
kotlinweb-frameworkasynchronousasync
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