Nikita Vasilevsky
Software Developer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Vasilevsky is a Software Developer based in Ottawa with 10 years of experience building robust back-end systems, currently contributing at Shopify. He has a strong Ruby on Rails pedigree from roles at Itransition and Aterise and has made notable open-source contributions to the flagship rails/rails repository, improving Active Record query behavior and database connection management. His work focuses on query optimization, correcting update/destroy semantics under default scopes, and ensuring safer query constraints—skills that translate to reliable data layer engineering at scale. Comfortable navigating both legacy Rails internals and large production codebases, he brings pragmatism and attention to correctness. Trained in computer science at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, he combines formal grounding with practical, production-first engineering. An often-unseen strength is his knack for hunting subtle database edge cases that prevent latent bugs in high-traffic applications.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Github Skills (7)
testing10
activerecord10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
database-management9
sql9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rails/rails
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:354 reviews, 35 commits, 140 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to improving the Ruby on Rails framework's Active Record component, focusing on database interaction and query optimization. Their work involved refining default scope functionality, specifically addressing issues related to `all_queries: true`. They also fixed update and destroy queries when default scopes are used and made improvements to query constraints and validations. Furthermore, the user addressed several issues related to database connection management.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
nvasilevski/rails
Jun 2021 - Jun 2024
Ruby on Rails
Contributions:111 pushes, 64 branches in 3 years 1 month
ruby-on-railsrailsrubystimulusjsruby-on
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