Alexander Regueiro
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Regueiro is a versatile software engineer with 18 years' experience blending hands-on backend development, build/release automation, and technical leadership across startups and open-source projects. He has deep low-level systems expertise in Rust—contributing to rust-rocksdb with raw C bindings, backup features, and error-handling macros—and helped keep the widely used clippy linter compatible with the latest nightly compiler. Alexander also streamlines developer experience through Homebrew formula work, ensuring reproducible installs and smoother build pipelines. His academic interests in philosophy, foundations of physics, and theoretical CS inform a rigorous, conceptual approach to problem solving and tooling. Comfortable leading teams and founding startups, he pairs practical delivery with a curiosity for foundational ideas that shape long-lived software. Based in the UK, he brings a rare mix of systems-level craftsmanship and philosophical depth to engineering challenges.
18 years of coding experience
English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (100)
access-modifiers10
package-management10
linq10
rocksdb10
databases10
cffi10
ruby10
vbnet10
code-analysis10
entity-framework10
double10
foreign10
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-clippy
Apr 2016 - May 2020
A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 PRs, 10 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `rust-clippy` project, a linter for Rust code, by fixing build issues related to the latest nightly Rust compiler. They also addressed review comments and made various cosmetic improvements to the codebase. These changes include updates to several source files and involved modifications to linting rules, attribute handling, and utility functions, ensuring the project's compatibility and adherence to coding standards.
linterlintrustlangmistakes
rust-rocksdb/rust-rocksdb
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
rust wrapper for rocksdb
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 38 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the low-level implementation details of the rust-rocksdb project, focusing on the raw bindings to RocksDB's C API. Their work involved extensive code cleanup, including style standardization and the addition of license headers across multiple files. They also added backup functionalities and the related error handling mechanisms using a macro, enhancing the library's capabilities and maintainability.
rocksdbrustrust-bindingsdatabaserust-wrapper
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