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Name: Konstantin Gredeskoul

Type: User

Company: @pioneerworks @ReinventONE @wanelo @fossas @bazelruby

Bio: Ex-Staff Engineer @ Coinbase & FOSSA, 4x CTO of VC-funded startups. Scaling ● DevOps ● Ruby ● Bazel ● Mentor ● Speaker Wanelo, Coinbase, ModCloth, Blurb, Topica

Twitter: kig

Location: San Francisco, CA

Blog: https://kig.re/

What's up, I'm Konstantin

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About Me

🌏 I live in San Francisco, California, USA & I often visit Melbourne, Australia where I got my degree (at Monash University) and where my family lives.
🔭 I maintained the open source rules_ruby for Bazel, and now helping with the canonical ruby rules.
📫 How to reach me: @kig

Software Engineering

Currently, I'm a Principal Software Engineer for HealthSherpa.

I used to be a CTO at four separate startups, largeset of which was Wanelo.

I was a Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase and Fossa.

Ruby

I am big open-source proponent, and I wrote about a few dozen open-source Ruby gems with over 120M downloads.

Among the most popular gems are:

colored2 — ASCII color ruby gem
sym — Symmetric encryption vi CLI or API based on OpenSSL
simple-feed - Redis based backend for twitter-like feeds
puma-daemon — Puma daemonization library

DevOps, Build, and Systems Configuration

I do a lot of Infrastructure and Scalability work, so among my other projects are:

C++/CMake Project Template with Google Test library
Bazel/Starlark Projects including Rules Ruby.
BASH Projects.

Music

I play piano, guitar and drums.

I've been DJ-ing since the vinyl days (house, tech-house, progressive, techno, downtempo)

My DJ name is LeftCtrl

I also have been composing and producing electronic music for over 20 years,

Hardware Projects

I have also written projects in C/C++ for Arduino platform.

Some of my popular projects and posts are:

BORAT — Bathroom Occupancy Remote Awareness Technology
Autonomous Obstacle Avoidance Library for DC motors or Servo Motors.
How to use arduino nano mini pro with ch340g on Mac OS-X

Based on the template by Phil Nash.

Konstantin Gredeskoul's Projects

makeabox.app

Work in progress — evolution of the original MakeABox application, this one will use Angular and Rails 6

markdown-styles

Markdown to static HTML generator and multiple CSS themes for Markdown

mc-settings

Convenient way to manage ruby application settings/configuration across multiple environments. NOTE: this fork is now the primary source of the mc-settings ruby gem.

minecraft

A simple interview problem with a solution

minimal-mistakes

:triangular_ruler: Jekyll theme for personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. Two-columns and extremely flexible.

mms-mime

Ruby parser for MM7-wrapped MMS/MIME messages

Molder is a command line tool for generating and running (in parallel) a set of related but similar commands. A key use-case is auto-generation of the host provisioning commands for an arbitrary cloud environment. The gem is not constrained to any particular cloud tool or even a command, and can be used to generate a consistent set of commands based on several customizable dimensions.

monorepo-tools

[READ-ONLY] Tools for building and splitting monolithic repository from existing packages (with their history unchanged)

myinterviews

Application to manage job applications, interviews, cover letters and feedbacks

neo-ring

Ring of NeoPixels based on the Adafruit_NeoPixel library and an example.

neo4j-imdb

This is a Dataset from IMDB prepared to be ingested in Neo4J.

neon-dj

A fork of pixelmatrix/aurora that's too heaviliy modified.

net-scan

A small Ruby gem that will scan your local network for running HTTP services and return an array IP addresses.

new-relic-menus

nginx

Development repository for nginx cookbook

nmap-syntax-highlight

Nmap syntax highlight

obstacle-avoiding-robot

Arduino-based project that drives on 4 DC motors and avoids things in front.

omnipix

Various animations on 32x32 LED matrix powered by Teensy 3.1, SmartMatrix, and a custom enclosure.

onebutton

An Arduino library for using a single button for multiple purpose input.

pause

Fast, flexible, and easy to use rate limiter or throttler for multi-process ruby applications backed by Redis.

performance-compare

A simple gem that can be used to compare algorithm implementations in Ruby using a single thread, a thread pool, or a process pool.

pgbouncer

This cookbook installs and configures pgbouncer on SmartOS (Illumnos) or Ubuntu/debian system with SystemD.

playgine

Gaming backend engine written in Rails 6, TypeScript, PostgreSQL

postgres

Install/Configures postgresql from sources

public_activity

Easy activity tracking for models - similar to Github's Public Activity

pullulant

Kick start a fresh development environment on any Mac with OS-X El Capitan, with this opinionated, but modular and customizable installer. It's based on HomeBrew, SproutWrap cookbooks, and about 2K lines of Bash programming :)

puma

A Ruby/Rack web server built for concurrency

puma-daemon

Puma (starting version 5) removed automatic demonization from the gem itself. This functionality was extracted to this gem, which supports Puma v5 and v6.