Vasily Polovnyov
Lead Developer at Artem Gorbunov Design Bureau
Kursk, Kursk Oblast, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolVasily Polovnyov is a seasoned Lead Developer with 17 years of experience building web applications and leading engineering teams from Kursk, Russia. He specializes in Ruby, Sinatra, Rails and front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/JavaScript/CoffeeScript), bridging backend architecture with polished UI work. As Lead Developer at Artem Gorbunov Design Bureau and former Lead Rails Developer at Flatstack, he combines hands-on coding with team leadership and delivery ownership. He co-founded Kursk Meetup, demonstrating community leadership and commitment to local tech ecosystem growth. An active open-source contributor, Vasily has improved styling and theme work for the popular highlight.js project, showing attention to detail in developer-facing UX. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance elegant frontend design with robust Rails backends.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Kursk State University (KSU)
Github Skills (5)
syntax-highlighter10
css10
syntax-highlighting10
javascript9
grammars7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
highlightjs/highlight.js
Feb 2009 - Sep 2012
JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Vasily primarily contributed to the CSS styling aspects of the `highlight.js` repository, specifically focusing on creating and modifying stylesheet files. They added and adjusted CSS rules for various themes, including a new theme named "GitHub" and updated existing themes like "Idea" and "Sunburst." Their work involved defining styles for pseudo-classes and elements, at-rules, and adjusting style for specific code elements like symbols. This work enhances the visual appearance and customization options of code highlighting within the JavaScript syntax highlighter.
javascriptsyntax-highlighterzero-dependenciessyntax-highlightinglanguage-grammars
vast/vast.github.io
Mar 2010 - Dec 2022
personal github page
Contributions:469 commits, 13 PRs, 124 pushes in 12 years 11 months
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