Valery Brobbey
Senior Software Engineer at CollegeVine
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValery Brobbey is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient back-end systems and user-facing features across companies from Google and Apple to Sentry and CollegeVine. He specializes in Java, SQL/PLSQL, Python and Perl, and has deep operational experience designing data workflows for video processing, metadata migration, billing and notification systems. At Sentry he worked on hybrid cloud features and complex data migrations; in open-source he contributed front-end improvements to Oracle's popular OpenGrok code search tool to improve UX for long revision histories. Valery combines a strong database and performance mindset with practical front-end polish, enabling end-to-end delivery of shipping products. Trained at MIT in math with computer science, he is equally comfortable writing low-level PL/SQL and shaping high-level product interactions. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors, careful backfills and pragmatic solutions that keep production systems stable.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Math with Computer Science, BSc, Math with Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
sentry10
python10
django10
css10
webpages10
billing-system10
database-migrations9
java9
javas9
database-migration9
react8
testing8
postgresql7
cicd5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:270 reviews, 23 commits, 61 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Valery primarily contributed to the backend and frontend of the Sentry platform, with a focus on hybrid cloud features, billing, and notification settings. Their contributions included refactoring models, adding indexes, and backfilling data related to notification settings, which involved migrating and updating database structures. They also worked on implementing frontend features related to billing, including cancel subscriptions and updating copy for pay-as-you-go options.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
oracle/opengrok
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Valery primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the OpenGrok project. Their work focused on enhancing the history page, specifically addressing issues related to long revision messages by implementing collapsible summaries. They also added word break support to improve display across different browsers and styles. Further, the user integrated a feature allowing users to control the collapse threshold for revision messages.
opengrokcross-referencesearch-enginecode-searchengine
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