Victor Afanasyev
Full Stack Developer at BitHera
Ukraine
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Top SchoolVictor Afanasyev is a Full Stack Developer with 8 years of experience building web applications and integrations across startups and enterprise teams, currently contributing at BitHera from Ukraine. He is a pragmatic Ruby back-end engineer with notable open-source work on the Kimurai web-scraping framework, where he expanded core functionality like pipelines, browser building, proxy and encoding support. His background spans end-to-end delivery—requirements, prototyping, testing, deployments and client-facing consultations—gained through roles at Ingate, Eniro and Enea. Victor also has hands-on infrastructure experience (streaming, CRM integrations, firewalls and IDS) which helps him bridge development and operations concerns. He combines a KTH Computer Science education with a penchant for practical tooling that makes complex integrations and automation more reliable.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (7)
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scraper10
pipelining10
webscraping10
pipe10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vifreefly/kimuraframework
Aug 2018 - Jul 2020
Write web scrapers in Ruby using a clean, AI-assisted DSL. Kimurai uses AI to figure out where the data lives, then caches the selectors and scrapes with pure Ruby. Get the intelligence of an LLM without the per-request latency or token costs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 133 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Kimurai web scraping framework. Their commits involved adding essential components like the base class, core extensions, and the `kimurai/all` module. Furthermore, the user implemented the Pipeline class and made changes to the browser builder to support features such as proxy and encoding. These changes suggest an effort to expand the capabilities of the framework.
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gitter-badger/kimurai
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Kimurai is a modern web scraping framework written in Ruby which works out of box with headless chromium/firefox, phantomjs, or simple HTTP requests and allows to scrape and interact with javascript rendered websites
Contributions:125 commits in 4 months
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