Alex Toia
Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Toia is a seasoned software engineer with over 10 years of hands-on experience and a long career history that spans Hewlett-Packard, Turin Networks, and Nortel. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he blends low-level systems affinity with user-facing polish—contributing back-end Wine/Proton support and runtime detection to the popular MangoHud overlay while improving GTK-based UI interactions in the Peek GIF recorder. A Linux enthusiast who tinkers for fun, Alex focuses on pragmatic enhancements like theme-aware UI tweaks, dynamic controls, and configuration-driven features such as blacklist entries and gamepad support. His McGill-trained engineering background underpins a pattern of shipping reliable, cross-stack solutions that make developer and end-user workflows measurably better.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B-Eng, Computer Engineering, B-Eng, Computer Engineering at McGill University
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Github Skills (21)
proton10
vulkan10
vala10
c-language10
configuration-management10
linux10
ui-design10
gtk10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
wine10
debug9
benchmark9
debugging9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
flightlessmango/MangoHud
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 7 reviews, 120 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to adding features related to Wine and Proton support for the MangoHud overlay. They implemented code to detect Wine and Proton versions, incorporating this information into the overlay display. The user's changes modified the source code to include color options for the overlay and also added the ability to add entries to the blacklist from within the configuration file. The user also worked on the gamepads functionality and related code.
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phw/peek
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 8 PRs, 187 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the "peek" application. Their contributions involved implementing a popover menu for format selection, replacing the initial popover with a `GtkMenuButton` and integrating styling changes to the popover to match different themes (including specific adjustments for Ambiance). They also added the functionality to dynamically update the record button label to reflect the selected output format and show the elapsed recording time.
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