Olga Telezhnaia
Developer Relations
Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolOlga Telezhnaia is a Developer Relations professional with 11 years of engineering and technical leadership experience across Microsoft, JetBrains, NEAR Protocol and open-source projects. She combines hands-on systems programming—contributing meaningful refactors and feature work to the core Git codebase—with developer advocacy and community building, now based in Portugal. Her background spans backend engineering roles and technical evangelism, moving into technical leadership at NEAR before focusing on developer-facing work. A persistent open-source contributor, she has improved low-level Git internals (MRU cache, ref-filter, strbuf handling), reflecting deep familiarity with VCS internals that few dev-rel specialists possess.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Computer Science CenterBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
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Github Skills (11)
algorithm10
c1710
data-structures10
git10
algorithms10
internals10
c1110
data-structure10
nearprotocol6
shell5
build-automation4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
git/git
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 22 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Olga primarily contributed to the Git source code, focusing on internal refactoring and code improvements. Their work involved simplifying existing code, such as the MRU cache, by reusing components from the list library. Furthermore, the user added new features to the ref-filter module and improved existing code structures. This included adding options for working with strbufs, refactoring code, and optimizing format handling to remove calls to `die()`.
codemirrorcshell
near/near-analytics
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:37 reviews, 63 commits, 32 PRs in 5 months
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