Valentin Ruskevych
Software Engineering Team Lead at Self-employed
Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolValentin Ruskevych is a decisive software engineering team lead with 13 years of experience building and rescuing mission-critical fintech and high-traffic web systems from Tel Aviv. He combines hands-on backend expertise (PHP, Ruby, Python), system architecture and DevOps—evidenced by contributions to the Rollbar Ruby integration and large-scale Rails optimizations that cut server counts dramatically. Valentin has led cross-functional teams, introduced CI/CD and TDD practices, and repeatedly reduced costs and technical debt while boosting developer throughput. He also operates as an independent whitehat, building deanonymization tools and disrupting scam operations, bringing a rare blend of security insight and product-focused engineering. Comfortable both leading strategy and shipping code, he thrives on pragmatic, measurable improvements in reliability and performance.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PHP Web Development Web Building, PHP Web Development Web Building at Expert CenterMiniMBA, MiniMBA at International Business Management Institute (IBMI)PHP&MySQL Developer, PHP&MySQL Developer at W3C SchoolsBachelor's degree Programming Technologies Business management Finances Analytics Psychology & Philosophy., Bachelor's degree Programming Technologies Business management Finances Analytics Psychology & Philosophy. at Self Studying
English, Russian, Hebrew, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (24)
error-reporting10
background-processing10
configuration-management10
ruby10
error-log10
bugtracking10
queue8
ui-testing8
exception-handling8
ab-testing8
queuing8
unit-testing8
testing8
abtest8
rollbar7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rollbar/rollbar-gem
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Exception tracking and logging from Ruby to Rollbar
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Valentin primarily contributed to integrating Shoryuken, a Ruby job processing library, with the Rollbar error tracking service. They implemented a `Shoryuken` worker to handle asynchronous error reporting, including configuration and queue management. Their work involved modifying existing configuration files, and ensuring compatibility, by updating and refactoring the `Shoryuken` integration to match the library's specifications. The user also addressed compatibility issues identified during testing, particularly with queue naming and exception handling, making the integration stable.
uncaught-exceptionserror-monitoringobservabilityloggingexceptions
PayMeService/remotisan
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Execute and manage Artisan commands remotely
Contributions:16 reviews, 74 commits, 8 PRs in 4 months
laravelremotelyartisanartisan-commands
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