Vitaliy Demidov
Sr. Backend Developer at Scalr
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVitaliy Demidov is a senior backend developer and engineering leader with over a decade of experience designing and shipping high-performance web and cloud management systems. He has led teams and architected core backend components at Scalr—building ACLs, lightweight ORMs, database upgrade systems, and PHP libraries for AWS and OpenStack integrations—while driving performance, CI, and test automation. Deep expertise spans PHP MVC frameworks, MySQL and MongoDB optimizations, complex integrations (EDI, payment processors, AS2), and frontend components such as custom autocomplete widgets and memory-safe jQuery plugins. Known for pragmatic tooling, he has authored an RFC1521-based MIME library and a crontab-replacement service using 0mq, reflecting a taste for building robust, reusable infrastructure. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on implementation with people leadership and a track record of solving tricky interoperability and scaling challenges.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Sevastopol State Technical University
Russian, English, Ukrainian
Github Skills (115)
testing10
phpunit10
timezone10
client-library10
unit-testing-framework10
scalr10
unit-testing10
nim-lang10
php10
taco10
peewee10
go-client9
flysystem9
datetime9
sqlite9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Scalr/scalr
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 5 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 3 months
gcpcloudkubernetescloud-managementaws
Scalr/ADOdb
Jun 2017 - Feb 2022
ADOdb is a PHP database class library that provides powerful abstractions for performing queries and managing databases. ADOdb also hides the differences between DB engines so you can easily switch them without changing your code.
Contributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 4 years 8 months
class-libraryormswitchhidesmysqli
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