Alex Turbov
Software Engineer at The World
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Turbov is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of professional experience and more than 15 years of C++ expertise, specializing in designing and maintaining high-performance, 24x7 distributed and real-time systems. Comfortable across the stack of low-level engineering concerns, he excels at memory-leak hunting, performance tuning, and pragmatic object-oriented design using established patterns. He has a strong track record as a project maintainer and remote contributor, including notable back-end work on the widely used CMake repository where he improved FindBoost handling and added support for zlib/bzip2 and Windows prebuilt Boost binaries. Based in Dubai and holding an MS in Computer Science from Saint Petersburg LETI, Alex combines rigorous academic grounding with hands-on systems experience on *nix and LynxOS platforms. He is open to new opportunities and brings a practical focus on reliability and scalability to every codebase he touches.
15 years of coding experience
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English
Stackoverflow
6,979reputation
1.2mreached
194answers
4questions
compilation
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cmake
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overriding
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ffmpeg
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gcc
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
lib10
build-system10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
boost10
ffmpeg9
compilation9
gcc9
overriding9
cpp8
software-packaging7
cpack6
lambda6
dictionary6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/CMake
Jun 2015 - Nov 2022
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:314 commits, 9 PRs, 22 comments in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex made significant contributions to the CMake build system used by the repository, specifically within the context of the FindBoost module. They refactored and improved the FindBoost module, modifying how it handles compiler versions and operating system-specific paths to the Boost libraries. They enhanced the build scripts by adding support for zlib and bzip2 libraries, and by adding the ability to find Boost prebuilt binaries on Windows.
cmake
zaufi/etc-paludis
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:77 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
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