Alexander Borsuk
Staff Software Engineer at Hexagon Robotics
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Borsuk is a Staff Software Engineer and serial founder with 15+ years building high-performance, cross-platform software and leading engineering teams from startup to scale. He co-created MAPS.ME and now co-leads the privacy-focused Organic Maps project—significant open-source offline mapping apps with millions of users—and contributes across Android and iOS codebases. Alexander combines low-level C++ and embedded expertise with mobile, server, and networking systems, having optimized real-time streaming engines and prescriptive maintenance algorithms at companies like Phenix and VibroBox. A pragmatic technical leader and teacher, he excels at root-cause analysis, performance and process optimization, and shipping resilient systems at scale. Based in Zurich, he pursues automation, medical research and biohacking interests, bringing a rare blend of product intuition, open-source stewardship, and practical preventive-medicine curiosity to engineering problems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Digital Signal Processing, Master of Science - MS Digital Signal Processing at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian, Russian, German
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
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mobile-development10
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ui-design10
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java10
gradle10
geolocation9
localization8
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
organicmaps/organicmaps
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 6919 reviews, 876 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed primarily to the iOS version of the Organic Maps app by implementing features and fixing bugs within the UI components. Their work focused on modifying the user interface for place pages, including adding and editing functionality for place names, addresses, and other details. The user was involved in modifying settings for the application, particularly involving the map view and the interaction with the location service.
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mapsme/omim
Dec 2010 - Aug 2016
🗺️ MAPS.ME — Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS and Android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 reviews, 3965 commits, 574 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's contributions primarily focused on enhancements and fixes for the Android version of the MAPS.ME application, as evidenced by the frequent use of the "android" tag. They implemented Facebook SDK updates, addressed warning fixes, and integrated the Gradle build tool, reflecting their focus on Android development. The user also worked on the application's UI, improving the user experience by incorporating a visual cue to indicate the user's current location and enhancing the search functionality with features like a "create feature" button.
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