Yury Smolski
Senior Software Engineer at WunderGraph
Kyiv Metropolitan Area Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolYury Smolski is a Senior Software Engineer with over 20 years in programming and more than a decade of professional experience building large-scale, resilient systems. He brings deep expertise in Go, Python, C and Linux, and has contributed directly to the Go project (including godoc and the playground) and maintained the lightweight queue beanstalkd. Yury has designed and scaled distributed crawlers and data platforms that processed billions of posts monthly and led migrations to cloud-native infrastructures, delivering measurable cost savings. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and low-level C work, he combines pragmatic engineering with a strong focus on code quality, testing and portability (introducing CI and fuzzing for beanstalkd). Based in Kyiv, he pairs long-term open-source stewardship with hands-on product delivery at companies from startups to enterprise. A less obvious strength is his knack for turning legacy, brittle systems into low-maintenance, highly automated platforms that run with minimal intervention.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Belarusian National Technical University
English, Russian, Russian
Github Skills (17)
testing10
playgrounds10
c1110
c1710
go10
documentation10
api-design9
git9
error-handling9
command-line-tool9
build-automation8
system-design8
debug8
debugging8
performance-optimization7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
beanstalkd/beanstalkd
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 90 commits, 233 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yury made several contributions related to core functionalities within the Beanstalkd project. They addressed issues by modifying and improving code related to the release script, adding features such as a draining status to the "stats" command, and renaming functions for better clarity. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to improve code style, fix potential integer overflows, and address various warnings from the "cppcheck" tool, indicating a focus on code quality and stability. The user also improved the test suite.
golangbeanstalkwork-queue
golang/playground
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
[mirror] The Go Playground
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Yury primarily contributed to the Go Playground project by implementing and improving core functionalities. They focused on adding features such as displaying the Go version, linking to the source code, and supporting tests and examples. The user also addressed formatting errors and optimized the interleaving of standard output and error streams. Furthermore, the user added vet support and made outcome of "Run" clearer by displaying more information.
golanggo-playgroundplaygroundgo
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