Alexey Khoroshilov
Software Developer at Yandex
Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Khoroshilov is a software developer with 11 years of experience, currently building backend systems at Yandex after a six-year tenure at Alawar Entertainment. He contributes to high-impact open-source projects such as Brave’s core engine, focusing on permission lifetimes, content settings, and privacy-enhancing backend work. Based in Novosibirsk Oblast, he blends production engineering discipline with a privacy-first mindset, improving storage and web platform behavior through targeted unit-test-driven changes. Comfortable navigating large codebases, he has a track record of cleaning up and extending permission-related infrastructure to support new features. His background spans consumer-facing desktop and mobile browser internals as well as game and application development, giving him a pragmatic, product-oriented approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
Github Skills (5)
storage10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
web-platform9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brave/brave-core
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2700 reviews, 564 commits, 802 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexey's commits primarily focus on adding a permission lifetime backend to the Brave browser core engine, and they modify unit tests to validate the implemented functionality. The user also made changes to fix and cleanup permission-related code and added support for new features. The changes involve content settings, storage, and the web platform, focusing on enhancing user privacy and control.
browserwindowsbrave-browserlinuxandroid
brave/brave-variations
Apr 2021 - Feb 2023
Resources to compile, publish and inspect the variations seed file
Contributions:160 reviews, 116 commits, 283 PRs in 1 year 9 months
publishinspectcompileseedvariations
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