Val Gorodnichev
Principal Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVal Gorodnichev is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building and guiding engineering work at enterprise software companies, currently shaping platform and product architecture at Kong after a long tenure at SAP Concur. He brings deep institutional knowledge of large-scale systems and pragmatic delivery from operating inside both a major travel-expense SaaS vendor and an API/integration-focused infrastructure company. Trained originally as a mechanical engineer, Val pairs rigorous systems thinking with software craftsmanship to solve complex reliability and integration challenges. Based in the greater Minneapolis–St. Paul area, he is a steady technical leader who focuses on scalable, maintainable solutions and mentoring cross-functional teams. Though not a prolific public GitHub presence, his career longevity and role continuity suggest a strong track record of driving long-lived, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute 
Github Skills (92)
component-library10
monorepo10
eslint10
vue10
package10
nodejs10
npm10
lerna10
javascript9
kong9
swr9
npm-cli9
typescript9
build-system9
fetch9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
concur/nui-workshop-exercises-ARCHIVE
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:49 pushes, 9 branches in 8 months
ValeryG/dir-babel
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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