Juri Linkov
Ruby On Rails Developer at GiTLAB
Estonia
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Top SchoolJuri Linkov is a seasoned Ruby on Rails and full‑stack engineer with 22 years of experience building scalable web, mobile and telephony services across startups and telecom operators. He combines deep systems and language expertise—spanning Ruby, Elixir, Clojure, Rust, NLP toolkits and Semantic Web technologies—with hands‑on DevOps skills in Docker, AWS and GNU/Linux. As CTO and senior contributor to large open‑source projects (including notable contributions to GNU Emacs and remacs), he routinely improves core editor functionality and fixes subtle edge cases. His background in computational linguistics and NLP informs solid experience designing language tooling, morphology generators and semantic data pipelines. Comfortable working solo or leading teams, he has a proven track record shipping production systems for SMS/MMS processing, VAS, GPS tracking and rich web portals. Based in Estonia, he brings a rare blend of long‑term legacy expertise and modern cloud/functional programming practices.
22 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineer (M.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering, Systems Engineer (M.Sc.), Computer Science and Engineering at Tallinn University of Technology
English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (23)
editors10
text-editor10
grepl10
editor10
grep10
emacs-lisp10
customisation10
debug9
code-optimization9
debugging9
emacs9
elisp9
version-control8
html6
portability6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
emacs-mirror/emacs
Apr 2010 - Jan 2023
Mirror of GNU Emacs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 12 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Juri made multiple contributions to the Emacs codebase, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within specific areas. They added POSIX 1003.1-2001 signals to the `proced.el` file and implemented changes in the `tab-bar.el` file that included optimizations. Additionally, they fixed issues with the `isearch.el` file by addressing corner cases and introducing a new display of results. The contributions demonstrate an ability to enhance code and maintain performance.
gnu-emacsspacemacsgnuemacsemacs-lsp
remacs/remacs
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Rust :heart: Emacs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 16 days
Contributions summary:Juri primarily contributed to the Emacs Lisp codebase within the remacs/remacs repository. Their work focused on enhancing the functionality of Emacs's built-in features, specifically regarding `next-error`, `grep`, and interactive search. The user implemented new features, fixed bugs, and refactored existing code to improve usability and address identified issues, showing a strong understanding of Emacs Lisp and the core components of the Emacs editor. Contributions included customization options and improved user interaction within the editor.
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