Alexander Chernetz
Software Design Engineer at <HKR>
Marana, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Chernetz is a seasoned Software Design Engineer with 12 years of experience building backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and performance-oriented tooling. Currently at SAP Concur and serving as CTO/Lead Developer at HKR, he combines hands-on Python engineering with product-facing algorithm design for candidate-company matching. His background spans high-throughput geolocation processing (300% GPS throughput gains), financial risk visualization, and scalable data pipelines for education and enterprise domains. An active contributor to open-source GUI projects like git-cola, he improves maintainability and cross-platform compatibility while fixing tricky UI bugs. Based in Marana, Arizona, he pairs systems-level rigor from a Computer Engineering degree with a hacker mindset honed on early game-mod and low-level projects.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
git10
pyqt10
windows-gui10
qt10
python10
platform-independent9
multiplatform9
platform-agnostic9
refactoring9
cross-platform9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
git-cola/git-cola
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Focus on Application Development and GUI)
Software Engineer (Focus on Application Development and GUI)Contributions:18 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to improving the Git Cola GUI application. Their work involved refactoring code by replacing deprecated functions with newer compatible alternatives, such as replacing `os.environment` with `os.environ`, and `core.setenv` with `compat.setenv`, thereby enhancing the application's compatibility and maintainability. They also addressed several bugs, including fixing an issue in the `OpenParentDir` command and an indentation error in the `CompletionLineEdit` widget. Furthermore, the user made improvements to various widgets by modifying and updating GUI elements.
vcspythongit-guigit-addonsgui
achernet/pyscripts
Dec 2013 - May 2015
Contributions:77 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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