Vitaliy Potapov
Software Engineer at MedTech
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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RockstarVitaliy Potapov is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack web applications for desktop and mobile from Moscow. He combines front-end polish (datepickers, AngularJS in-place editing, CSS fixes) with back-end robustness (improving a popular unofficial Google Translate API and refining translation tooling). An active open-source contributor, Vitaliy has a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes—tests, documentation, and usability tweaks—that improve maintainability and real-world behavior. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often focuses on edge-case corrections (sentence spacing in translations, stripping mentions from descriptions) that noticeably improve user experience.
13 years of coding experience
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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docker
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google-chrome
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google-chrome-extension
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angularjs
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
bootstrap10
github10
apidoc10
testing10
css10
google-translate-api10
api10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
html10
nodejs10
bootstra10
bootstrap-datepicker10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vitalets/google-translate-api
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
A free and unlimited API for Google Translate :dollar: :no_entry_sign:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 21 PRs, 92 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Vitaliy primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Google Translate API. Their work included fixing tests, inserting spaces between sentences to correct translation output, and merging code changes. They also made several temporary modifications, including debugging and testing various configurations, such as changing API request parameters and logging for debugging purposes, and introduced a flag for auto-correction.
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vitalets/github-trending-repos
Nov 2017 - Nov 2022
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Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 145 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vitaliy contributed significantly to the repository by improving translation features, updating dependencies, and refining testing procedures. They updated the translation API, fixed translator tests, and implemented the use of a proxy host for translation services. Additionally, the user made changes to the tests to improve retry attempts and fix related issues. They also addressed a code issue by stripping mentions from the repository description.
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