Anton Kovalyov is a Software Engineer at Disqus, and has guided development on the Disqus commenting widget since the company's earliest days. He maintains and contributes to a number of open-source JavaScript projects, including JSHint, a code quality tool, and Hiro, a testing framework for third-party JavaScript applications.

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