Vitalii Rybachenko
Staff Software Engineer at Netlify
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVitalii Rybachenko is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web apps and native mobile clients, currently contributing to Netlify after Stackbit’s acquisition. He combines product-focused engineering with founder-level experience—co-founding Sprut and running meetups as organizer of BeerJS Vinnitsya—bringing both delivery discipline and community leadership. His background spans startups and enterprise projects (MyHeritage, Ciklum, EPAM) and includes building WYSIWYG site-editing experiences and browser-based apps. An active open-source contributor, he has improved developer tooling and front-end libraries such as brunch and PrismJS, addressing build stability, sourcemaps, and cross-browser line-number rendering. Based in West Palm Beach, he pairs hands-on coding with public speaking and meetup organization, making him equally comfortable shipping features and improving developer experience. Colleagues describe him as motivated, curious, and consistently pragmatic about balancing polish and velocity.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Systems and Networks, Master's degree, Computer Systems and Networks at Vinnic'kij Nacional'nij Tehnicnij UniversitetIncomplete higher, Computer engineering, Incomplete higher, Computer engineering at Vinnitsa Technical College
Украинский, English, Русский
Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
build-automation10
pipeline10
syntax-highlighting9
workflow-engine9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PrismJS/prism
May 2015 - Dec 2017
Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 26 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vitalii primarily contributed to the "line-numbers" plugin within the Prism syntax highlighting library. Their work focused on enhancing the functionality and compatibility of the plugin, including adding support for soft wrapping of lines, improving integration with line highlighting, and optimizing the rendering of line numbers. The user also addressed compatibility issues across different browsers, ensuring the plugin functioned correctly in Firefox. This involved modifying the plugin's CSS and JavaScript to support different white-space properties.
highlightjshighlightingprismjsprismicsyntax-highlighting
brunch/brunch
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
:fork_and_knife: Web applications made easy. Since 2011.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vitalii primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements related to the build process of the brunch web application framework. They addressed issues with package overrides and dependency management by modifying the `deppack.js` and `plugins.js` files. Furthermore, they corrected linting issues and sourcemap generation, suggesting a focus on maintaining code quality and developer experience within the project. These updates likely enhanced the stability and usability of the brunch framework for developers.
web-applicationspipelinejavascriptkniferequirejs
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