Alexey Zapparov
Senior Software Engineer at Kikoff
Galicia, Spain
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RockstarAlexey Zapparov is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable back-end systems and pragmatic front-end enhancements, currently based in Galicia, Spain and working at Kikoff. He has a strong track record in the Ruby and JavaScript ecosystems, contributing to widely used libraries like webmock, http.rb and js-yaml by implementing protocol compatibility, parsing primitives and robust URI/redirect handling. Alexey blends full-stack instincts with systems-level attention to detail—examples include adding image processing and asset pipeline improvements for Jekyll and refining tooltip placement in a popular jQuery plugin. A pragmatic problem-solver and self-described "Software Anarchist," he often focuses on subtle edge cases that improve interoperability and developer experience across projects.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (34)
jquery-plugin10
javascript10
parser10
jquery10
apidoc10
testing10
css10
http10
httpc10
data-structure10
ruby10
http-client10
api10
jekyll10
asset-pipeline10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
httprb/http
Jan 2014 - Jun 2022
HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 534 commits, 179 PRs in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily focused on improving the core functionality and robustness of the HTTP client library. Their contributions involved fixing relative URI handling in Location headers for redirects, addressing errors when invalid URIs were provided, and implementing the handling of HTTP responses with informational status codes. They also refactored code to address RuboCop violations and made changes to improve code clarity and functionality.
apihttp-clientstreaming-apistreamingruby
nodeca/js-yaml
Oct 2011 - Dec 2013
JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. Very fast.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:424 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexey contributed to the js-yaml repository by porting code from PyYAML, which included implementing core functionality like nodes, tokens, errors, and constructors. The commits demonstrate the implementation of low-level features that would be core to a YAML parser, including the construction of various nodes and scalar types. This user appears to be focused on laying the foundational building blocks required for parsing and dumping YAML data.
javascriptyaml-parserdumperparserjson
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