Yuriy Tymchuk
Software Craftsman at Ukrainian Catholic University
Neuheim, Zug, Switzerland
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Top SchoolYuriy Tymchuk is a Software Craftsman with 15 years of experience building resilient systems and rescuing complex, legacy codebases into maintainable products. Based in Neuheim, Zug, he blends academic rigor—holding doctoral research experience—with pragmatic engineering across full stacks including Scala, Spark, NodeJS and Ruby. He has taught and helped shape computer science curricula while consulting on strategy, bringing a rare mix of pedagogy and hands-on delivery to teams. At Swisscom and Blue Diamond Asset Management he focused on pragmatic refactors and smart engineering trade-offs that improve reliability and developer velocity. An active open-source contributor, he has demonstrated deep parsing expertise by extending a pure-Ruby WHOIS parser to support domain-specific registry fields and tests. Driven by curiosity and a low tolerance for "stinky" designs, he prefers experiments that end with usable, well-engineered outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Informatics, Master of Science (MS), Informatics at Lviv Ivan Franko National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of BernLviv Academic GymnasiumMember of MASU, Mathematics, Member of MASU, Mathematics at Minor Academy of Sciences of UkraineDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at USI Università della Svizzera italianaHighschool diploma, Physics, Mathematics, Highschool diploma, Physics, Mathematics at Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum
Ukrainian, English, Polish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
testing10
whois10
data-parsing10
ruby10
regex9
oop9
smalltalk6
pharo6
ios6
collections6
bundler6
gemfile6
squeak6
inheritance6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
weppos/whois
May 2012 - Jun 2012
An intelligent — pure Ruby — WHOIS client and parser.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Yuriy's primary focus within the `weppos/whois` repository involves enhancing the parsing capabilities for WHOIS data, specifically for the `.ua` domain. The contributions center around adding support for new properties such as `domain`, `created_on`, `admin_contacts`, and other attributes. They added tests to support the properties added to the parser. These changes demonstrate a strong grasp of data parsing and the ability to adapt to specific domain registry requirements.
pure-rubywhois-clientrubywhoisparser
Sleepy-Coders/Logic-Functional-Programming
Sep 2011 - Apr 2014
Contributions:52 commits in 2 years 7 months
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