Andrew Tropin
Scheme Developer at trop.in
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Tropin is a Scheme developer and FOSS maintainer with 13 years of experience building reproducible developer environments and operating-system-level tooling from Tokyo. He founded and upstreamed Guix Home and authors projects like Guix Home, Arei Guile IDE and RDE, focusing on Guile (Scheme) to improve reproducibility and developer ergonomics. His background spans distributed systems, Kubernetes-powered production services, and healthcare EMR built with Clojure, FHIR and PostgreSQL, reflecting both systems and application-level expertise. At trop.in and within the GNU Project he created a developer-friendly GNU/Linux distribution and cultivated an active community through regular online lectures and stream-based education. He brings a rare combination of low-level OS and language hacking with practical engineering leadership, having led Clojure teams and contributed to site reliability and Python projects earlier in his career. Based in Japan, he blends academic rigor from top Russian universities with hands-on open-source stewardship and tool-building.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Бакалавр, Прикладная информатика, Бакалавр, Прикладная информатика at Национальный Исследовательский Ядерный Университет «МИФИ» (бывший Московский Инженерно-Физический Институт)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Innopolis UniversityБакалавр, Прикладная математика и информатика, Бакалавр, Прикладная математика и информатика at Московский Физико-Технический Институт (Государственный Университет) (МФТИ)
Русский, English
Github Skills (200)
vala10
web-application10
autocomplete10
vim10
notification-center10
guix10
telegram-api10
broadcasting10
obs10
recording10
keyboard-layout10
zsh10
ime10
windows10
tray10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
abcdw/guile-ares-rs
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch, 5 tags in 1 year 8 months
abcdw/clj-deps-make
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
GNU Make <3 Clojure CLI and deps.edn
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 9 months
gnu-makegnumakefiledeps-ednedn
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