Vasiliy Kulakov
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Marlboro Township, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolVasiliy Kulakov is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of cross-platform experience building mobile, backend, and AI-powered systems, currently at LinkedIn after Jumprope's acquisition. He combines deep multimedia and performance expertise—video pipelines, OpenGL rendering, ffmpeg/MediaCodec work—with IoT, BLE, and cloud-connected product experience from roles at Casper and ustwo. A pragmatic architect and hands-on engineer, he has led mobile teams, defined firmware and API contracts, and set up CI/CD and testing strategies to improve reliability and portability. Outside work he contributes to prominent open-source education tooling by localizing the popular learnGitBranching project into multiple languages, reflecting a focus on accessibility and developer empowerment. Based in New Jersey, he blends a maker’s curiosity (games and apps) with leadership in shipping scalable, user-facing systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
In progress, Electrical Engineering, In progress, Electrical Engineering at Stony Brook University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
internationalization10
localization10
translation10
assetic6
doctrine-orm6
php6
javascript6
codeigniter6
symfony6
magento6
git4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pcottle/learnGitBranching
Mar 2015 - May 2015
An interactive git visualization and tutorial. Aspiring students of git can use this app to educate and challenge themselves towards mastery of git!
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vasiliy's commits primarily focus on translating the application's menu, level descriptions, and user interface strings into multiple languages (Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Russian). They have made changes to the `src/levels/index.js`, `src/levels/intro/commits.js`, `src/levels/intro/merging.js`, `src/levels/intro/branching.js`, `src/levels/intro/rebasing.js`, `src/levels/rampup/cherryPick.js`, `src/levels/rampup/detachedHead.js`, `src/levels/rampup/interactiveRebase.js`, `src/levels/rampup/reversingChanges.js`, `src/levels/rampup/relativeRefs2.js`, `src/levels/rampup/relativeRefs.js`, `src/levels/advanced/multipleParents.js`, `src/levels/mixed/describe.js`, `src/levels/mixed/tags.js`, `src/levels/mixed/jugglingCommits2.js`, `src/levels/rebase/selectiveRebase.js`, `src/levels/rebase/manyRebases.js`, `src/js/dialogs/sandbox.js`, `src/js/dialogs/levelBuilder.js`, `src/js/dialogs/nextLevel.js`, `src/js/dialogs/confirmShowSolution.js`, `src/js/intl/index.js`, and `src/js/intl/strings.js` files. The user's work appears to be centered around making the application more accessible to a global audience.
reactgit-interactiveinteractiveeducatevisualization
homeappcorporate/filtering-repository
Apr 2021 - Feb 2025
Filter and pagination mapper between http-request и Doctrine ORM
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 10 months
http-requestdoctrine-ormpaginationphpmapper
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