Motivated and curious developer, who loves research and is not afraid of the unknown. Likes FOSS and believes it is the way for science to progress. Particularly fond of Linux ecosystem, and wants to help in making it better. Has developed strong stress-management skills through his past experiences. Open for relocation.

Contacts

• E-Mail: Hi-Angel@yandex.ru
• Telegram: https://t.me/Hi_Angel7
• Mobile: +7 916 657 63 47

Hobby Experience

I have good knowledge and interest in low-level things, like system internals. I’m also very good at debugging and research. As one example: I made this library to create a bullet-time effect in any game, which I had no idea if it’s even possible at the beginning. As you can see it went very well. Another one: I have lots of contributions to Mesa (see below), but when I started contributing I had completely no idea of how graphics works. That was something I learned on the way to improving r600g driver.

Before becoming a student I loved reverse-engineering, and as part of that I managed to successfully patch out some annoying functionality in two arcade games. I also had experience with IDA Pro.

Programming languages I can code in, ordered from most to least knowledgeable: C, C++, Python, C#, Haskell, Bash, Rust, Elisp, Vala. Programming languages that would require to refresh my skills (e.g. either those I just dabbled with, or ones I haven’t used for a long time), same order: MiniZinc, Lua, JavaScript, Pascal/Delphi, PHP, Basic.

I have also worked (as a developer, not a user) with various build systems: Meson, CMake, Autotools, bare Makefiles. On a related note: I even contributed to ninja-build.

Notable publicly available records I’d like to point out:

1. StackOverflow profile
2. I am the creator of IMPP plugin (a protocol used by Trillian messenger) for pidgin.
3. My commits to userspace graphics drivers (FTR, the lastname inconsistency is that the first commit have had it wrong, and then patchwork site has somehow cached it).
4. My commits to libinput (it’s a modern library for handling HID devices which resides between kernel and Xorg/Compositors). I was also granted “Developer” permissions by libinput maintainer Peter Hutterer.
5. I was actively contributing to Geary mail client.
6. I have contributed a lot to Emacs plugin color-identifiers-mode.
7. I contributed to yi-editor, a Emacs/Vim clone written in Haskell.
8. I contributed to Way-Cooler, a Wayland compositor. As part of my work I learned a lot about nuances of Wayland protocol (the Compositor consisted of two processes, and I was focusing on a custom Wayland-based protocol for these two to commnunicate. That work didn’t get upstreamed though: I got the code, but stumbled upon some nuances that didn’t get resolved due to lack of spare time)
9. I contributed to Sway, a Wayland compositor. Most notable ones is plumbing through the support for per-window keyboard layout and creating a plugin inactive-windows-transparency.py to make inactive windows transparent.
10. I have contributed to ninja-build.
11. I have contributed to scst.
12. I have an assignment with FSF for contributing to GNU Emacs, and contributed patches and bugfixes.
13. I have an assignment with FSF for contributing to GNU Libc (Though you won’t see me in the Glibc contributors list because my patches to Glibc got lost due to lack of reply by maintainers).
14. My commits to Konsole terminal.
15. Some fixes to marge-bot (it’s a bot used by gitlab-hosted projects to simplify merging a code).
16. Fixing Macbook 2013 suspend in Linux kernel. Over time I’ve had some other minor patches too, but they all got lost.
17. My commits to Pipewire. Mostly cleanups, but my first commits were important bugfix for Pipewire inability to switch to headphones when they’re plugged in.
18. I fixed an old Wayland bug in mutter, where keyboard LED was always on in certain combination of factors.
19. Small cleanups to XServer.
20. I have an account on a popular russian site habrahabr (it is an IT-blog, where getting a non-read-only account requires writing a worthwhile article to get an invite. Which I did ☺).
21. I’m in Golden League in this bots-programming game, at 1558 place out of 6166 players. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be possible to share a link to the achievement. Anyway, I could do better, but at Golden League game rules changed to make it more boring, so I lost motivation to improve my bot any further. Still, leaving behind thousands of other programmers I guess is something.

I also had patches to many other projects, but it were either some trivial cleanups, or only 1-2 patches, so probably not worth mentioning here.

I have touch-type ability and elaborate keyboard-focused workflow that allows me rarely if ever touch the mouse, thus making me fast and more focused. The workflow comprises: α) a QtWebEngine-based browser Qutebrowser β) a tiling window manager i3wm γ) Emacs editor with vim-mode. As working in browser/editor/terminal and switching between them usually constitutes the most of my work, I think it’s fair to call my workflow well optimized. Tiling WM + workspaces allow me to keep applications maximized while being able to switch to the one I want instantly.

I am a dabbler at math, and I know some basic Category Theory.