Ivan Sagalaev
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIvan Sagalaev is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience designing implementable architectures, leading teams, and shipping full-stack web services from Python backends to React/TypeScript frontends. He focuses on keeping technical debt in check, debugging subtle production issues, and delivering customer-focused solutions, while acting as a "refactorer-in-chief" at Datadog. A long-time open source advocate, he is the original author and former principal maintainer of highlight.js and has contributed to Django and other projects, demonstrating comfort across JavaScript and Python ecosystems. His background spans search infrastructure, CI/CD and cloud deployments, telephony integration, and identity verification APIs, reflecting an unusual blend of hands-on implementation and higher-level architecture work. Based in Sammamish, WA, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with mentoring and project leadership informed by a Master’s in software-related disciplines.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Software Development, Information Technology, Math, Physics, Economics, Master, Software Development, Information Technology, Math, Physics, Economics at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
1,193reputation
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15answers
10questions
syntax-highlighting
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xml
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Github Skills (16)
css10
stylus10
syntax-highlighting9
maintenance9
xml9
version-control8
json6
highlightjs6
html6
javascript6
blogger6
unix6
python6
highlight6
lisp6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
highlightjs/highlight.js
Jan 2009 - Mar 2022
JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2278 commits, 172 PRs, 422 pushes in 13 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ivan's primary contribution involves merging code changes related to the Stylus language. This is demonstrated by merging the `master` branch into `stylus` branch which included commits for: Removing Stylus's canonical name from aliases and including it in the class reference, fixing some code and adding `.` in css pseudo selectors and adding styles for template class names. This suggests a focus on maintaining or contributing to the syntax highlighting capabilities of the project.
dependencieshighlightzerosyntax-highlighterjavascript-syntax
isagalaev/elementflow
May 2010 - Feb 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 years 9 months
xmlstreamingstream
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