Alex Vechy
Senior Software Engineer at Skyscanner
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Vechy is a Senior Software Engineer based in Barcelona with 11 years of experience building high-impact web and backend systems, currently optimizing ad revenue and product consolidation at Skyscanner. He blends frontend expertise from roles at Typeform and Pipedrive with systems-level work in Go and Rust—evidenced by notable contributions to the popular helix editor where he improved core UX and editor behaviors. Comfortable across full-stack, DevOps and GraphQL infrastructures, he focuses on simplifying integrations and improving performance and accessibility. Kind-hearted and humble by nature, he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with a developer’s curiosity, often tinkering on open-source projects for fun outside of work.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied mathematics, 86.4, Bachelor's degree, Applied mathematics, 86.4 at Восточно-украинский университет имени В.ДаляMaster's degree, Software Engieneering, Master's degree, Software Engieneering at University of Tartu
Русский, English
Github Skills (11)
rust10
text-editor10
kakoune10
vim9
serde-json8
configuration-management6
algorithms6
algorithm6
data-structures6
data-structure6
command-line-interface5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
helix-editor/helix
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
A post-modern modal text editor.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 14 PRs, 85 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Helix editor's core functionality by implementing new features and improving existing ones. Their work involved adding functionality for cycling option values, integrating plaintext matching as a fallback for bracket matching, and enhancing the `:toggle` command to support cycling of numerical values. Furthermore, the user was involved in initializing log and config files and improving surround replacement visual feedback. These changes demonstrate a focus on enhancing user experience and improving the editor's core features.
modalvimkakounerusttext-editor
alevinval/vendor-go
Sep 2022 - May 2024
Highly customisable dependency vendoring tool
Contributions:19 releases, 130 PRs, 150 pushes in 1 year 8 months
vendorvendoringprotobufgrpccustomisable
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