Alexander Galanin
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Galanin is a Senior Software Engineer with 16+ years of industrial experience who currently focuses on high-performance networking and media acceleration at NVIDIA. He blends deep systems-level expertise across C/C++ on AIX, Linux, Solaris and Windows with proven vendor- and hardware-agnostic driver and platform work on ARM, POWER, SPARC and x86. Alexander has led cross-platform projects from early-stage development to certification (DO-178B, FSTEC) and holds a patent-contributing background in audio/video analysis and broadcast monitoring. He is an active open-source contributor—authoring fuse-zip and a C++ JSON mapper and improving projects like POCO and systemd—and has improved testing infrastructures in notable repos such as Mellanox/sockperf. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic performance tuning, reliable CI practices, and the ability to translate research in image/video/audio processing and graph/3D mesh theory into production software.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Mathematics, Engineer's degree, Mathematics at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
English, Russian
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
googletest10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
parsing10
parse10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Mellanox/sockperf
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Network Benchmarking Utility
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:166 reviews, 17 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on integrating GoogleTest framework for unit testing, demonstrating a focus on improving the testing infrastructure. Their contributions involved integrating gtests, extracting message parsing code, and incorporating input handlers into client/server/callback code. Additionally, the user addressed null pointer dereference issues and refactored code, showing a commitment to code quality and stability within the project.
benchmarking
agalanin-at-nvidia/sockperf
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Network Benchmarking Utility
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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