Gleb Arestov
Founder (Indie Hacker) at Linkkraft
Oregon, Russia
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolGleb Arestov is a startup-minded Principal/Staff software engineer and indie founder with 16 years of experience designing high-performance frontends and resilient Node.js backends. Based in Oregon and currently building Linkkraft, he focuses on productivity-first browser experiences that help users tame research-heavy tab workflows. Previously he was the first engineer and frontend/Electron architect at Sidekick Browser, shipping CI, cross-platform builds, memory and performance optimizations, and product features that earned top Product Hunt recognition. Gleb has led teams and projects across consumer and enterprise domains—from ERPs at EuroChem to freight marketplaces at Trucker Path—and brings strong full-stack instincts (React, TypeScript, Node.js, Docker, CI automation). An active contributor to low-level tooling, he’s improved torrent-stream core logic and tracker robustness, showing a willingness to dive into protocol-level problems beyond typical frontend work.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
English, Russian
Github Skills (4)
open-source10
nodejs10
javascript10
bittorrent10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mafintosh/torrent-stream
May 2014 - May 2014
The low level streaming torrent engine that peerflix uses
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gleb primarily contributed to the core logic of the torrent streaming engine. Their commits focused on refactoring code, supporting external trackers, and improving the robustness of the tracker client. They also made updates related to the handling of torrent metadata and the overall structure of the engine. The user further optimized the code and added features to improve integration with trackers.
p2pbittorrentpeerflixstreamingtorrent
pushplaylabs/sidekick-releases
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:99 releases, 1 branch, 99 tags in 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.