Timofei Voronov

Software engineer · workshop notes

Timofei Voronov

I build developer tools, languages, and infrastructure that make complex systems easier to use.

Creator of Ferret, with more than a decade of open-source work across reusable libraries, integrations, runtimes, and developer tooling.

Selected work / 01

The technologies change; the interest in useful interfaces, extension points, and dependable boundaries stays remarkably consistent.

Since 2019maintained

lecho

A Zerolog integration for Echo that keeps structured request logging and application context connected.

  • Go
  • Echo
  • Zerolog
  • HTTP middleware
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Since 2021maintained

waitfor

A modular Go toolkit for waiting until remote resources and dependent services become available.

  • Go
  • Testing
  • Retry and backoff
  • Service coordination
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Since 2019maintained

dbx

A thin, context-aware layer over Go’s database/sql for database access and transaction management.

  • Go
  • database/sql
  • Transactions
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The wider bench / 02

Elsewhere in the workshop.

Smaller current utilities and older experiments reveal the same design habits at another scale.

Current utility

throttle

A thread-safe fixed-window limiter and HTTP transport wrapper for Go clients.

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Maintained utility

pinterval

Async interval scheduling with dynamic timing, stop conditions, retries, and backoff.

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At the bench / 03

Current focus

The manually maintained workbench currently centers on Ferret v2, language and runtime design, developer tooling, and infrastructure abstractions.

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Writing elsewhere / 04

Recent Ferret notes

Tim-authored design and project updates published on the Ferret website.

  1. Why Ferret Was Built as a Library FirstBuild the library first. Everything else follows.
  2. New Website, New Docs, and the Road to Ferret v2A project update on Ferret’s new home, documentation, and direction toward v2.
  3. Inside Ferret v2: New Language CapabilitiesA tour of the first-class language capabilities introduced in Ferret v2.
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