chshersh

Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg using OCaml

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/chshersh

Name: Dmitrii Kovanikov
Location: London, UK
Company: Bloomberg
Kind: user
Followers: 1037
Following: 69
Total stars: 1179
Repositories count: 28
Created at: 2022-11-09T07:39:55.671Z
Updated at: 2025-03-28T14:05:58.110Z
Last synced at: 2025-03-28T14:05:58.109Z

GitHub Sponsors Profile

👋 Hi, I'm Dmitrii (he/him), and I spend my free time contributing to the OCaml and Haskell programming language ecosystems. I write beginner-friendly Functional Programming tutorials, guides, and blog posts, develop open-source Haskell libraries and applications. I also participated as a mentor in annual programming events such as Hacktoberfest and Google Summer of Code.
I strive to produce high-quality open-source work by following best practices and providing excellent documentation for my libraries and applications. Being passionate about Functional Programming and OCaml, I'm putting my best effort into developing helpful, robust, and performant software.
I'm an author of the free Haskell Beginners 2022 course. It's a beginner-friendly Haskell course for newcomers that teaches basics in an easy and acceptable format. The course contains four 1-hour video lectures free on YouTube, and free exercises.
Besides my OSS and mentoring work, I write Haskell and FP guides and tutorials. You can find them in my blog:

Dmitrii Kovanikov blog

❓ Why sponsorship
Sponsoring my work will help me spend more time doing open-source work:

Creating new helpful libraries and tools
Maintaining the existing ones and improving their quality even further
Writing more blog posts and tutorials, keeping old posts updated
Helping other people to learn Functional Programming
Sharing my knowledge via talks at developer conferences
Using paid developer tools to produce even faster and more robust applications
Contributing bug fixes and feature implementations to other open-source Haskell libraries

💎 Notable work

🧑‍🏫 Haskell Beginners 2022: A Haskell course for complete beginners
✍🏻 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production
✍🏻 Pragmatic Category Theory
✍🏻 The Most Elegant Configuration Language
✍🏻 Avoiding Haskell space leaks at all costs
🌒 github-tui: A GitHub TUI in OCaml
🧰 zbg: Zero-Bullshit Git

☎️ Contacts

chshersh.com: My blog, CV, projects highlights, contacts
@chshersh on 𝕏: I write about OCaml, FP, and hot tech takes
@chshersh on YouTube: Functional Programming Tutorials