Anatol Pomazau
Software Engineer at Arch Linux
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnatol Pomazau is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in Linux kernel, filesystems, and AI infrastructure, currently based in San Jose and working at Google. He has driven production kernel maintenance and security work at scale—leading encryption-at-rest projects at Twitter, contributing kernel drivers and Hypervisor firmware for Pixel devices, and maintaining Filesystem/Block subsystems and FUSE at Google. An active open-source maintainer and packager, he’s an Arch Linux core developer and has deep backend contributions to notable projects like RethinkDB and the Tup build system, where he performed invasive SQLite upgrades and platform-specific fixes. Comfortable bridging low-level C/C++ kernel work and high-level tooling in Go and Python, he has a track record of shipping secure, high-performance systems and uncovering subtle security issues (e.g., CVE mitigation). His background combines rigorous academic training (MS CS) with practical production deployments across major tech firms, and he frequently surfaces non-obvious platform quirks—such as macOS stat() differences and architecture-specific integration challenges—while modernizing long-lived codebases.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Belarusian State University
English, Russian, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
develop10
sqlite10
python10
build-system10
c1110
c1710
regular-expression9
sublime-text-plugin9
macos9
refactoring8
linux8
refactor8
cprogramming-language6
c-language6
git4
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
gittup/tup
Jan 2011 - Nov 2017
Tup is a file-based build system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Anatol primarily focused on updating the SQLite library within the `tup` build system, upgrading it from version 3.6.23.1 to 3.7.4, and then again to 3.7.5, 3.7.7, 3.7.8, 3.7.10, 3.7.11 and 3.21.0. This involved modifying the core SQLite source code, indicating a deep understanding of the library's internal workings and integration with the build system. Additionally, the user implemented support for `ifneq` conditional statements and added platform-specific code adjustments, like the handling of macOS stat() function calls and modifications for architecture-specific configurations.
tupbuild-systembuild-toolfile-based
SublimeText/CTags
Sep 2012 - Nov 2012
CTags support for Sublime Text
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 2 months
Contributions summary:Anatol primarily focused on improving the `ctags` support for Sublime Text. Their work included refactoring existing Python code to remove redundancies and simplify expressions, and adapting the code to match the output format of Linux `ctags`. They also addressed code quality issues, such as ensuring Unix newlines and whitespace cleanup. These changes contributed to the overall maintainability and cross-platform compatibility of the `ctags` plugin.
textmatectagssublimesublime-text-3sublime-text
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