Alexey Gulev
Co-owner And Developer at Refold AB
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Gulev is a Stockholm-based game and systems developer with 11 years of experience building performant games and tooling across mobile, HTML5 and native platforms. As co-owner and developer at Refold and a long-time contributor to the open-source Defold engine, he has shipped editor, GUI, sound and profiler features and solved platform-specific build challenges for Android and HTML5. His background spans indie studios and large product teams—roles at King and Playtika sharpened his expertise in performance engineering, developer relations and engine extensions. Alexey combines full-stack game engineering with a pragmatic focus on optimization and cross-platform ports, and he brings hands-on experience creating native extensions and porting Flash/Unity titles to modern web and mobile ecosystems. An entrepreneurially minded technologist, he also co-founded PotatoJam and has delivered 100+ HTML5 projects, demonstrating both product intuition and sustained open-source impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
State Institution of Higher Professional Education "Belarusian-Russian University"
English
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Github Skills (15)
lua10
c-language10
game-development10
game-engine10
front-end-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-dev10
android9
html9
javas8
java8
ios6
ipa6
accelerometer6
defold6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
defold/defold
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1059 reviews, 210 commits, 781 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to the Defold game engine's codebase, making changes to various components including the editor, game object, GUI, and sound functionalities. Their work involved implementing features like setting screen position for nodes, creating and applying Lua bytecode, integrating enhanced gamepad support for HTML5 builds, and addressing issues related to Android builds. Moreover, the user implemented code related to in-game profiler including displaying metrics for gui components.
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defold/extension-kaiads
Mar 2021 - Apr 2024
Integration of the KaiAds SDK with the Defold game engine
Contributions:2 releases, 1 tag in 3 years 1 month
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