Pasha Finkelshteyn
Developer Advocate
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPasha Finkelshteyn is a Developer Advocate and polyglot data engineer with 13 years of experience, currently based in Berlin and focusing on JVM languages, Kotlin, Python, and JS/TS. He builds bridges between developer communities and big-data tooling—authoring and maintaining the Kotlin for Apache Spark API and creating talks, workshops, and blog content that reached major venues like JavaZone. Previously he combined hands-on engineering and leadership across retail, banking, and platform teams, driving process improvements, testing and deployment automation, and architectural overhauls. An active open-source contributor, he has implemented resilient plugin features for notable projects such as FlexGet, improving authentication and RSS handling. Autonomous but collaborative, he pairs deep technical craft with a talent for public speaking and community-building rooted in a background in business psychology.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Business Psychology, Master's degree Business Psychology at Higher School of Economics
English, Russian
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Github Skills (13)
plugin-development10
rss10
torrent10
python10
webscraping10
http-request10
sqlalchemy9
automation9
automations9
filtering6
tree6
vaadin6
java6
Programming languages (38)
Github contributions (5)
Flexget/Flexget
Jan 2014 - Oct 2018
The official FlexGet repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Pasha primarily contributed to the `flexget` repository by developing and modifying a plugin related to the rutracker torrent tracker. They implemented features for authentication, automatic downloading, and cookie management. The contributions also involved refactoring and fixing errors, including adding retries to the authentication process and updating code. Additionally, the user added an option to escape unescaped ampersands in the RSS feed handling, improving the overall usability of the application.
rssmoviespythontorrentautomation
asm0dey/3proxy
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 18 commits, 14 pushes in 6 days
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