Vitali Tatarintev
Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab Inc.
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVitali Tatarintev is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Berlin with 15 years of experience building and hardening web platforms, currently driving backend development at GitLab. He is a staunch advocate of TDD, refactoring, and code quality, with a track record of improving test coverage and upgrading legacy Rails codebases to modern standards. His open-source work includes meaningful contributions to high-profile projects like CodeTriage and GitLab CE, where he focused on testing, authentication extraction, and eliminating deprecated patterns. Prior roles at Babbel, Wimdu and multiple consultancies sharpened his API design, Rails expertise, and ability to deliver customer-facing features within feature teams. Outside of work he documents learnings on a weekend blog, demonstrating a reflective approach to continuous improvement. Colleagues describe him as the engineer who both prevents regressions through tests and makes codebases easier to change.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
299, Computer Science, 299, Computer Science at State University A. Russo Balti
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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173answers
22questions
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (17)
rubocop10
ruby-rails10
testing10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
gitlab10
migration9
open-source9
ruby-on-rails9
database9
mongodb6
mongoid6
haml6
markdown6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
codetriage/CodeTriage
Oct 2013 - Jul 2015
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Vitali primarily contributed to testing and refactoring the `codetriage/codetriage` repository. Their work included writing tests for controller actions and user interface elements, and refactoring code to improve maintainability and reduce potential errors. They also fixed a bug related to unchecking favorite languages in the user profile. Furthermore, the user added test coverage for GitHub authentication and extracted GitHub authentication into a separate class.
discoverget-startedrailsjavascriptruby
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Vitali's commits primarily involve refactoring and improving the codebase related to testing. They modified a significant number of specs, updating deprecated methods and aligning them with Rails 6.0 standards. The contributions focus on improving the robustness and maintainability of the codebase, ensuring it adheres to current best practices and addresses potential deprecation warnings. Furthermore, the user implemented Rubocop rules to prevent the usage of deprecated methods.
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