Alexandra Zapuc is a software engineer based in Zurich with four years of professional experience building back-end systems and infrastructure for major tech and telecom organizations. She currently works at DFINITY contributing to the Internet Computer blockchain, where her Rust work on canisters and 128-bit cycles APIs improved core functionality and compatibility in a high-profile open-source repository. Her background spans roles at Microsoft, GetYourGuide, and Swisscom, blending DevOps practices with backend engineering across cloud-native and large-scale production environments. Comfortable refactoring legacy code and removing brittle dependencies, she focuses on pragmatic, maintainable solutions that enable new features. Alexandra’s trajectory shows a balance of systems-level thinking and hands-on implementation, often surfacing less obvious compatibility and performance gains.
Internet Computer blockchain source: the client/replica software run by nodes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 158 commits, 5 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexandra primarily contributed to updating the Rust canister in the dfinity/ic repository. These updates included the implementation of the 128-bit cycles-related API. Further contributions involved code refactoring, such as removing dependencies and adjusting code for better compatibility. The user's work appears focused on improving the core functionality and supporting new features within the Internet Computer blockchain's source code.
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