Aleksandr Mezin
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolAleksandr Mezin is a pragmatic systems and tooling engineer with 14 years of experience building and automating C/C++ and Python-based projects, from embedded Android stacks to cloud services and CI pipelines. He combines deep Linux knowledge—including kernel internals and container tooling—with hands-on work improving build systems (CMake, Meson), test automation, and deployment tooling across companies like GreatFruit, Ivideon and Kaspersky. An active open-source contributor, Aleksandr has fixed bugs and enhanced projects across the Linux desktop and infra ecosystem (GNOME/GLib, KDE, LXC, renovate, pytest-xdist and more), and maintains niche tooling such as a VSCode kernel project generator and a GNOME drop-down terminal extension. He’s comfortable reverse-engineering drivers and adapting low-level components (e.g., NZXT RGB fan controller, Android virtual device kernels) to run in constrained or containerized environments. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex build and integration problems while quietly shipping small but impactful fixes across widely used OSS projects.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)Master's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Omsk State University (OSU)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (55)
visual-studio-code10
dependency-management10
container10
javascript10
c-language10
system-programming10
pytest10
qt10
package-management10
python10
distributed-testing10
linux10
c1110
linux-kernel10
gcc10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
amezin/vscode-linux-kernel
Sep 2018 - Jun 2021
Visual Studio Code project/compile_commands.json generator for Linux kernel sources and out-of-tree modules
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to improving the build process of the project, which involves generating compile_commands.json for the Linux kernel sources. Their work included implementing support for out-of-tree builds and module development, indicating a focus on build system flexibility. They also addressed an error condition related to the absence of .o.cmd files and updated the shebang line for better portability.
kerneljson-generatorvisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extension
KDE/plasma-desktop
Jul 2013 - Sep 2014
Plasma for the Desktop
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:295 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily focused on developing the X11 and XInput2 backends for touchpad configuration within the Plasma Desktop environment. Their work involved modifying and enhancing the codebase to enable features such as pressure detection, palm detection, circular scrolling, and keyboard shortcut configurations. The user also worked on refactoring and simplifying existing code to improve the efficiency and functionality of the touchpad settings.
electronlinuxc-plus-pluschromeosdesktop
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