Vasia Patov is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with a decade of experience building cloud-native and AI-scale infrastructure, currently advancing CoreWeave’s hyperscaler platform. He brings full‑stack chops from roles at Google (DoubleClick Studio) and research-driven engineering at Flashpoint, where he combined ML prototyping, data pipelines, and Terraform automation to turn messy data into analyst-ready insights. Vasia is a pragmatic builder and maker—co-creating the ad‑free JustPoker webapp and contributing front-end improvements to the popular open-source chess server Lichess, including a security-minded password complexity UX. Comfortable spanning front-end UI work to backend data engineering, he pairs production delivery with a curiosity for practical ML and user-focused product polish.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Stony Brook University, State University of New York
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Stuyvesant High School
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Stony Brook University
♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 1 PR in 3 days
Contributions summary:Vasia's contributions focused on enhancing the user interface and signup/login flows within the Lichess platform. They implemented a password complexity meter using the zxcvbn library and integrated it into the signup and password change pages. The user also refactored and consolidated password complexity-related code, improving the user experience and potentially enhancing security.
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Vasia Patov - Staff Software Engineer at CoreWeave