Sergey Shandar
Founder, Software Engineer And CEO at nolock.social
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSergey Shandar is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11+ years building distributed systems, SDKs, and developer tooling from startups to Microsoft and Facebook. Based in Seattle, he now leads nolock.social and focuses on decentralized, content-addressable networks and trusted connections—work reflected in contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as the Azure SDK and DefinitelyTyped. His background spans full-stack, backend, and DevOps roles, including CI/CD, API spec validation, and SDK build automation, and he has hands-on experience improving serialization, proxy support, and test automation. Sergey combines entrepreneurial leadership with deep implementation skills, and an early career in game and systems programming gives him a practical edge in performance-sensitive systems.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master Applied mathematics, Master Applied mathematics at Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (61)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
static-typing10
javascript10
azure-storage10
azure-application-insights10
build-definition10
package-management10
api-design10
azure-sdk10
restful-api10
testing10
net10
typescript10
dotnet10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-php
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
Microsoft Azure SDK for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 182 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sergey contributed to the implementation of HTTP_PROXY support within the PHP SDK. They introduced the ability to configure proxy settings via the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, enhancing the SDK's flexibility. Code changes focused on modifying the `HttpClient.php` file to incorporate the proxy configuration logic, allowing for debugging with tools like Fiddler. Additionally, they made updates related to versioning and user agent string.
azure-functionsphpsdkazure-sdkmicrosoft-azure
Azure/azure-powershell
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:598 commits, 68 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Sergey made several contributions focused on updating and modifying the project's core functionality. The work involved extensive changes within the codebase, including modifications to multiple files to update the functionality. The commits indicate the user has experience working on system configurations.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
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