Pavel Argentov
Backend Developer at Evrone
Tver, Tver Oblast, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Argentov is a backend developer with 15 years of experience building and maintaining web applications, systems automation, and IP network platforms, currently focused on Ruby-based backends at Evrone. He combines hands-on engineering with teaching experience as a former university lecturer who supervised research and trained students in web and general programming. Early work leading operations and automation at Ratmir-TeleKom cultivated deep expertise in FreeBSD/Linux administration, billing systems, and infrastructure tooling across Shell, Perl, Ruby, and OCaml. An active open-source contributor, he improved documentation, tests, and compatibility in the widely used Thor CLI toolkit, demonstrating attention to maintainability and cross-version robustness. Based in Tver, Russia, Pavel brings a practical systems mindset rooted in years of ops leadership and a scientific background in neural physiology that informs his analytical approach to software design. He mentors engineers and balances legacy system knowledge with modern backend practices.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Biologist, Neural Physiology, A, Biologist, Neural Physiology, A at Tver State University
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
ruby10
command-line-interface10
documentation10
cli10
command-line10
refactoring9
cucumber6
git6
rspec6
git-stash6
thor6
stdout6
stderr6
redirect6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rails/thor
Sep 2011 - Oct 2011
Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:12 commits in 25 days
Contributions summary:Pavel contributed to the Thor toolkit by adding and modifying documentation to clarify the usage of the `directory` action and class options. They also addressed issues regarding the behavior of `convert_encoded_instructions` and implemented tests for it, thereby enhancing code maintainability. Additionally, the user addressed compatibility issues with Ruby 1.9 syntax and provided several minor fixes and refactorings to the codebase, including typo corrections and improving existing code.
command-line-interface
argent-smith/opam_docker
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 11 months
dockerfilesdockeropam
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