Valentin Kiselev is a back-end developer with nine years of experience building reliable server-side systems, currently working at Evil Martians in Istanbul. He has a strong practical background in configuration management and tooling, demonstrated by contributions to the popular lefthook Git hooks manager where he implemented robust config loading, validation, and tests. Prior roles at Cryptopay and RAIDIX reflect hands-on work in fintech and storage-related engineering, combining pragmatic engineering with attention to maintainability. A graduate of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, he blends a classical engineering education with active open-source participation that improves developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Санкт-Петербургский политехнический университет Петра Великого
Fast and powerful Git hooks manager for any type of projects.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:8 releases, 90 reviews, 140 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Valentin primarily contributed to the configuration and management aspects of the `lefthook` project, a Git hooks manager. Their commits demonstrate a focus on implementing config loading, parsing, and validation using Viper. The user also added tests for the config loading mechanism and refactored related code to improve the project's structure and maintainability. Furthermore, the commits reveal the user's involvement in managing Git LFS integration and refactoring code.
Self-contained, universal coverage uploader binary. Under development.
Contributions:28 PRs, 183 pushes, 97 branches in 10 months
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