Aleksandr Orlenko
Tech Lead at Yelp
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Orlenko is a polyglot software engineer with 16 years’ experience building reliable, large-scale systems and leading teams at companies including Yelp and Apple. He moves quickly between languages and paradigms, favoring Rust and contributing low-level bindings and async support to notable open-source projects like mlua-rs that bridge Lua and Rust. As a tech lead and senior production engineer, he combines hands-on systems programming with operational experience delivering resilient services in production. Based in Stony Stratford, UK, he brings a pragmatic curiosity from early work in IPTV, billing and network monitoring to modern backend and concurrency challenges.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics and computer science, Master's degree, Informatics and computer science at Pacific National University
Russian, English
Github Skills (6)
asynchronous10
binding10
lua10
rust10
async10
luajit7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mlua-rs/mlua
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
High level Lua 5.4/5.3/5.2/5.1 (including LuaJIT) and Roblox Luau bindings to Rust with async/await support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 11 reviews, 549 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the `mlua-rs/mlua` repository, as evidenced by their commits involving core Lua bindings to Rust, along with async/await support. They introduced several changes that included removing, allowing init, and modifying code related to the Lua implementation. These changes indicate a focus on low-level implementation and improvements for the Lua integration with Rust.
luascriptingluauasynchronousroblox
Yelp/casper
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
A fast web application platform built in Rust and Luau
Contributions:35 reviews, 191 commits, 65 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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