Hi. I’m Alexander.

I am a full-stack web applications software engineer.

Technologies that currently make my bread and butter:

• Ruby on Rails
• ClojureScript
• React
• PostgreSQL

Besides backend, I also do responsive frontend

• Responsive web page
• Responsive web stats block
• Responsive gallery
• Responsive tabs

I’m an open source contributor

• Bootstrap 3 components built with React react-bootstrap
• React specific linting rules for ESLint eslint-plugin-react
• Gravatar URL for ClojureScript cljs-gravatar
• Bootstrap Loader (webpack’s plugin) bootstrap-loader
• Integration of React + Webpack + Rails react-on-rails
• A Select control built with and for React JS react-select
• RSpec runner and formatters rspec-core
• Release script release-script
• React PropType utilities react-prop-types
• Integration between React Router and R-Bootstrap react-router-bootstrap
• ESLint plugin for the lodash library eslint-plugin-lodash
• Elemental UI

I create projects to help other projects

• Release-Script
• for React-Bootstrap
• for React-Router-Bootstrap
• for React-Prop-Types
• Rosemary-UI uses it
• react-component-metadata
• uncontrollable
• react-element-children
• jquense/yup
• mathieumg/tempura
• …and many other projects

Project maintenance related tasks

• I can handle API changes
• Handling of deprecated features
• I love to deal with technical debt
• I use code linting
• I maintain CHANGELOGs
• Publish only essential to npmjs
• My attention to details
• I use visual testing too

I care about code readability

• RSpec: readability improvements for code
• RSpec: readability improvements for tests

I like removing code :)

• Like this
• this (simplify webpack configs)
• and this

I care about documentation

• Documentation for users
• Add docs for jsx-sort-prop-types rule
• Documentation for contributors
• Document –dry-run option for maintainers
• and more

I care about tools I’m using

• My fix for the Eslint linter for Atom

I use Continuous Integration

• Travis CI
• Circle CI

I can write advanced SQL

• My random-and-unique next_id() function
• Dropping of the foreign keys

I work with AST as well

• Implementation of the jsx-sort-prop-types rule
• AST specific tests

I have been contributing to open-source since 2011

• Simplify RSpec’s command options

I am very consistent and dedicated

• I am using Kanban, but sometimes Readme is enough
• I have a wide range of interests

What other developers say about me

• alexkval as the bulldog that keeps fixing everything
• Thanks to Alexander Shemetovskiy (Leimonis Konstantinos)
• Dude you rock (Matt Smith)
• Fantastic (Jimmy Jia)

Some of my proof of concept projects

• JSON-API server with ORM-layer for ODBC in Node.js webd2-api
• A client to webd2-api made with Ember.js webd2-client-ember
• Node.js ORM-layer to Windows ODBC webd2-datamapper

My pet-projects for learning

JavaScript related

• Express + jQuery + Backbone + Marionette
• Working with GoogleMaps API
• My jQuery component (Show me)
• Working with Moment.js (Show me)
• Functional JS
• Ember: Task-Manager
• Ember: GitHub-Show
• The Elm: Random GIF
• The Elm: Dynamic Components

RubyOnRails related

• Kind of Twitter (Live project)
• Torba + Sprockets Demo
• Using Rails Engines and Git Submodules

Frontend related

• Responsive CSS - web page
• Responsive CSS - web stats block
• Responsive CSS - gallery (Show me)
• Modal login form (Show me)
• Credit card form (Show me)
• Pricing table (Show me)
• Stylish listing (Show me)
• Mobile registration form (Show me)
• SVG by hand (Show me)
• Code syntax highlighting (Show me)
• W3School the “example” part of a page
• EngVid’s button and form style
• CSS transitions
• CSS-only responsive tabs (Show me)
• Layouts
• Copyworking
• Animated grid