Alex Boyko
Software Engineer at Broadcom
Delta, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Boyko is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building developer tools, cloud-native UIs, and IDE integrations, currently contributing at Broadcom after leading developer tooling work at VMware. He has deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Eclipse/VSCode Language Server integrations and frontend frameworks, having driven Spring Tool Suite, Spring Cloud Dataflow UI and related projects used by large developer communities. His open-source contributions include core improvements to the OpenRewrite automated refactoring tool, notably enhancing AST position tracking and bug fixes that improve mass refactoring reliability. Alex combines low-level platform knowledge (Eclipse GEF/GMF, JVM tooling) with modern web stacks (TypeScript, Angular, React) to deliver production-grade editor and diagramming experiences. Based in Delta, BC, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset honed at IBM and Pivotal, often surfacing subtle tooling issues developers don’t notice until scale. Known for quickly learning new tech, he pairs careful engineering with a history of contributing meaningful OSS improvements that benefit large codebases.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of OttawaBSc Mathematics and Statistics, BSc Mathematics and Statistics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
English, Russian
Github Skills (5)
maven10
javas10
refactoring10
java10
code-search9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openrewrite/rewrite
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
Automated mass refactoring of source code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the OpenRewrite Java-based refactoring tool by implementing and enhancing core functionalities. They focused on improving the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) node's position tracking, including line and column details, and fixing bugs in the source code. Their work also included refactoring code, adding features to existing recipes, such as supporting executions in the AddPlugin recipe and modifying code to skip over the Java file name in the CU getSourceSet() method.
masspythonastabstract-syntax-treerefactoring
spring-projects/spring-flo
May 2016 - Sep 2021
JavaScript angular based embeddable graphical component for pipeline/graph building and editing
Contributions:3 releases, 253 commits, 26 PRs in 5 years 5 months
pipelinejavascriptgraphicalangulargraph
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