Valery Bugakov
Senior Software Engineer at Sourcegraph
Indonesia
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Top SchoolValery Bugakov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Indonesia with 11 years of full‑stack and front‑end experience, currently building developer tools at Sourcegraph. He brings deep UI expertise in React and TypeScript, has contributed to high‑profile open‑source projects like Jest and styled-components, and implemented UX components and refactors for a Code AI platform. Valery has a strong background modernizing front ends and introducing GraphQL in production from roles at Evil Martians, Anagram, and Mercury Development. He mentors peers, migrates legacy stacks to modern tooling, and prefers roles outside the Ruby on Rails niche. Off the clock he’s into surfing, snowboarding and basketball—hints of a risk‑seeking, team‑oriented problem solver.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Master's degree, Software Engineering, Computer Science at Samara State Aerospace University
Russian, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
web-application10
testing10
css10
css-in-js10
typescript10
styled-components10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
webapp10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2566 reviews, 406 commits, 1031 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Valery's commits primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the Sourcegraph platform. They implemented new UI components, such as a badge, for product-research menu items and made updates to existing components like the "FeedbackBadge" within the web application. These contributions involved refactoring and optimizing existing React components using TypeScript, CSS, and the usage of various front-end libraries to implement the UI.
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jestjs/jest
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Delightful JavaScript Testing.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Valery primarily contributed to the Jest testing framework, with a focus on enhancing and maintaining its core functionalities. They implemented new features, such as virtual mocks and `toBeCloseTo` and `toMatch` matchers, to improve testing capabilities. Their contributions also included bug fixes, such as addressing an issue related to module caching, and extending the "No tests found" message for improved clarity. These changes involved modifications across multiple packages within the repository, including `jest-cli`, `jest-matchers`, and `jest-changed-files`.
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