Valdur Kana
Back End Developer at Car Rental Gateway Limited
Tartu, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolValdur Kana is a pragmatic back-end developer and co-founder with 15 years of hands-on experience building production systems and prototypes, currently working at Car Rental Gateway in Tartu, Estonia. He combines deep debugging instincts—demonstrated by diagnosing a tricky memory leak in smart card software—with practical backend work in PHP, Python and NodeJS across access control, rental and SaaS projects. An active open-source contributor, he has improved functionality and user-facing behavior in the popular py3status i3status wrapper, showing attention to polish and edge cases. Valdur excels at stabilizing services, instrumenting systems to surface hard-to-find faults, and turning investigative leads into fixes that keep products running.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Tehnology, Tehnology at Tartu Tamme High SchoolNo Degree, Computer Engineering, No Degree, Computer Engineering at University of TartuWebsites, Websites at Tartu Kutsehariduskeskus (Tartu Vocational Education Centre)
Github Skills (8)
debugging10
i3-config10
python10
stat10
slstatus10
i310
configuration-file9
configurations9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ultrabug/py3status
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
py3status is an extensible i3status wrapper written in python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 42 commits, 41 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Valdur primarily contributed to the `py3status` project by addressing bugs and improving the functionality of various modules. Their work involved fixing issues related to window title display, ensuring correct behavior when titles are missing. They also made several code improvements by updating formats and configurations parameters in modules such as `online_status`, `dpms`, `scratchpad_counter`, `player_control`, `taskwarrior`, `whoami`, and `whatismyip`. This demonstrates a focus on refining the user experience and ensuring the modules functioned as expected.
pythoni3wmi3statusi3bar
valdur55/valdurist
Sep 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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