Matthew Yarmolinsky
Full Stack Developer at balena
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Yarmolinsky is a Full Stack Developer with nine years of experience building and modernizing web and CLI tooling from New York. He combines backend, DevOps, and front-end skills to ship reliable developer-facing features—most notably contributing to the popular balena CLI by adding fleet and device management commands, modernizing output formatting, and removing deprecated dependencies. A CUNY Brooklyn College computer science graduate with a 3.8 GPA, he has a practical knack for refactoring legacy code and improving developer experience across complex systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate operational needs into maintainable automation and concise interfaces, and his open-source contributions show a preference for pragmatic improvements that scale.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.8, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.8 at City University of New York-Brooklyn CollegeComputer Software Engineering, Graduated, Computer Software Engineering, Graduated at Brooklyn Technical High School
English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
cli10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
javascript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
command-line10
cicd9
release-management9
docker8
dockers8
git7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
balena-io/balena-cli
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
The official balena CLI tool.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:132 reviews, 20 commits, 88 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the improvement and expansion of the balena CLI tool. Their work involved adding new features, such as flags for opening dashboards and adding notes to releases for the `fleet`, `push`, and `deploy` commands. They also refactored the codebase to modernize the output formatting using the OClif formatter and dropped deprecated features and older versions of dependencies. Furthermore, they introduced commands for device and fleet tracking and made changes to underlying system components.
golangbalenacli-toolbalena-clicli
myarmolinsky/Ponkemo-v2
Apr 2020 - Jun 2021
Reinventing/Rebooting Ponkemo
Contributions:220 commits, 33 PRs, 198 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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