Adam Potolsky
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Potolsky is a senior software engineer based in Sunnyvale with over a decade of experience building cross-platform, embedded, and mobile systems. He blends hands-on engineering—fixing platform-specific compiler issues, improving Linux distro detection, and enhancing GUI/plugin workflows—with higher-level responsibilities like architecture design, patent filings, and standards contributions. Comfortable across languages and environments, he has a practical knack for making complex builds and integrations more portable and reliable. Known for adaptability, he often surfaces small but impactful improvements (e.g., platform generator visibility and retry logic fixes) that improve developer and user experience.
11 years of coding experience
Northern Arizona University
Stackoverflow
524reputation
22kreached
1answer
2questions
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Github Skills (23)
kvm10
c-language10
multiplatform10
barrier10
cross-platform10
keyboard10
mouse10
openssl10
cprogramming-language10
shared9
linux9
windows9
build-automation9
mime9
e-mail9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
deskflow/deskflow
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Deskflow lets you share one mouse and keyboard between multiple computers on Windows, macOS and Linux. It's like a software KVM (but without video).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 3 PRs, 60 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to fixing compiler warnings and improving the cross-platform compatibility of the project. They addressed issues related to conditional compilation, ensuring the code functions correctly on both Windows and non-Windows systems. Furthermore, the user enhanced the system's Linux distribution detection for generating appropriate plugin URLs. These changes involved modifications to the GUI and plugin-related files, indicating a focus on platform-specific configurations and build processes. Additionally, they added a feature to display the list of available platform generators and corrected some logic related to retry counts.
synergymouse-emulationmousesharingkeyboard-emulation
speaker/text-tourney-brackets
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:48 commits, 19 pushes, 2 issues in 10 days
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