Alexander Bilyak
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAlexander Bilyak is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building C/C++ and Qt-based systems and recent work at Google, combining embedded, desktop, and backend skills across civil and defense domains. He designs pragmatic architectures and prefers reusing proven patterns to inventing wheels, having led integrations of hardware and software that now support border protection and search-and-rescue systems. Comfortable picking up new languages and standards, he has also contributed front-end polish to the widely used ProtonMail Bridge project, improving QML components and UX details. Based in Zurich and holding an MSc from Bologna, he balances long-run focus on complex projects with a dislike for routine, delivering robust, field-proven software under real-world constraints.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 106/110, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 106/110 at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Русский, English, Italian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
qml10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
qt9
exp8
user-experience8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ProtonMail/proton-bridge
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Proton Mail Bridge application
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:76 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing and refining the user interface of the ProtonMail Bridge application. They removed unnecessary usage of Font Awesome, fixed layout and display issues in various QML components such as `SettingsView`, and improved the overall visual presentation. The user also implemented and refactored QML components for the "facelift" project, contributing to a more modern and polished UI. Furthermore, they addressed bugs related to notification bars and icon sizing.
bridgemailproton
BilyakA/gentoo-clang
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Gentoo overlay providing patches to build entire world with clang
Contributions:42 commits, 3 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 4 months
compilerscppclang-tidyclanggentoo
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