Vasyl Pedak
Software Engineer at GitLab
Dunvant, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVasyl Pedak is a hands-on software engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling full-stack web applications, currently at GitLab after leadership and senior engineering roles at Provenance and Amazon/Veeqo. He bridges backend services (Ruby on Rails, AWS) and modern frontends (JavaScript, TypeScript, React Native), with a track record of shipping performance and reliability improvements—such as dramatically reducing signup latency and cutting incident rates through on-call rotations. Comfortable in both permanent and contract settings, he favors focused, craft-driven teams and asynchronous collaboration that produce high-impact work with minimal ceremony. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UX and image handling in the Yupe e-commerce platform and built an open-source Automatic Election System, reflecting an interest in practical civic and developer tooling. Vasyl is drawn to mission-driven domains—renewable energy, healthcare, education—and to infrastructure that scales sustainable solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers quiet innovation over meetings and measurable technical outcomes over buzzwords.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Student, Computer science, Student, Computer science at Classical private university, Zaporozhye
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Github Skills (21)
yii10
twitter-bootstrap10
php10
css9
html9
shopware8
webshop8
user-interface8
commerce8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
javascript8
ecommerce-application8
shopify8
ecommerce8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
yupe/yupe
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Yupe! is an open source Yiiframework-based online e-commerce solution. Demo https://demo.yupe.ru/
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Vasyl primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Yupe! e-commerce platform, focusing on the user profile page. They refactored the profile page to use Bootstrap, improved password validation, and implemented an avatar upload feature. Furthermore, the user enhanced the user interface by integrating an avatar display widget and refining the image handling within the profile section. The user also addressed caching issues related to avatar display.
ecommerceyiicommercephpyii-framework
ProjectProvenance/react-native-provenance
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Library to add provenance.org experiences into your mobile applications to validate sustainability credentials of products you sell
Contributions:15 releases, 3 reviews, 38 PRs in 7 months
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