Yury Bondarenko
Technical Lead at Atmire
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolYury Bondarenko is a technical lead with eight years of engineering experience who transitioned from bioengineering research into full-stack software development. Based in Leuven, Belgium, he leads teams at Atmire building and maintaining DSpace-based institutional repositories, pairing Java/Spring back-ends with Angular front-ends and Apache Solr. His background as a PhD researcher in FF-OCM gives him strong experimental design, hardware control and custom data-acquisition software skills that inform pragmatic, test-driven engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved replaygain processing in the popular beets music manager and added metadata authority and UI theming/features to the official DSpace projects. Colleagues rely on him for both hands-on implementation and for reviewing and scheduling work, reflecting a blend of individual craftsmanship and growing technical leadership. He brings a curious, instrument-building mindset to software problems, often optimizing performance and robustness in complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Biosystems Engineering, With distinction, Master’s Degree, Biosystems Engineering, With distinction at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenHigh School, Latin/Maths, High School, Latin/Maths at Heilige- Drievuldigheidscollege Leuven
Dutch, Russian, English, French
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Github Skills (36)
integration-testing10
cli10
python10
testing10
typescript10
user-interface10
metadata10
java10
javas10
typescript-types10
html10
rest-api10
typescripts10
music10
angular10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DSpace/dspace-angular
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
DSpace User Interface built on Angular.io
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:117 reviews, 188 commits, 59 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Yury primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the DSpace Angular application. Their contributions included adding an option to hide the scope selection dropdown, making the ComcolPageBrowseByComponent themeable, integrating DSONameService for ds-dso-selector names, ignoring HTML whitespace in ds-thumbnail, making the AdminSidebarComponent themeable, and making the SearchComponent and ds-item-list-preview components themeable. Furthermore, they fixed scrolling background issues in modals and worked on minor fixes and optimizations.
user-interfaceangular-ioyarnangular-uingrx
DSpace/DSpace
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 59 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Yury contributed to the DSpace digital asset management system by implementing and testing features related to metadata authority services, browse entry matching, and facet value retrieval. They added functionality to handle authority and confidence parameters in metadata and enhanced item builder capabilities. The user also wrote integration tests, specifically for subject facets and browse entries, demonstrating a focus on quality assurance within the REST API of the DSpace project.
management-systemopen-accessdigital-assetdigital-asset-managementpowers
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