Yury Velikanau
VP Of Software Engineering at GridPoint
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolYury Velikanau is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 15 years of hands-on experience and a 24-year career arc across E‑Commerce, FinTech, and EnergyTech, now serving as VP of Software Engineering in Los Angeles. He builds and scales cross-functional engineering and firmware teams, delivering commercial platforms under aggressive timelines that measurably cut installation and support costs and enabled customer self-service. Technically fluent in Ruby/Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, Kafka and cloud platforms, he has led migrations to microservices, introduced GraphQL and dry-rb patterns, and contributed to the popular activerecord-import library to modernize its adapter support. A pragmatic manager who started as a systems engineer, Yury combines deep operational know-how with product-focused execution and a knack for turning small engineering bets into high-impact operational savings. Outside of work he has pursued diver training as a deliberate exercise in high-responsibility customer service and leadership under pressure.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS Business Administration, MS Business Administration at Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University
English, Russian, Russian, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
testing10
activerecord10
ruby10
adapter9
database-connector9
adaptor9
database-driver9
nginx6
amazon-web-services6
subdomain6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zdennis/activerecord-import
Aug 2012 - Jun 2013
A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:32 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Yury primarily contributed to the `activerecord-import` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and maintainability. They added tests for database adapter support and removed dependencies such as Jeweler, opting for more modern alternatives. The user also cleaned up whitespace and updated the code to be compatible with newer versions of ActiveRecord.
railsinsertionrubydatabaseactiverecord
spectator/linked-list
Dec 2013 - Sep 2021
Ruby implementation of Doubly Linked List, following some Ruby idioms.
Contributions:76 commits, 8 PRs, 25 pushes in 7 years 10 months
ruby-gemfollowingrailsdoubly-linked-listidioms
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