Andrey Kamakin
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Harju County, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrey Kamakin is a software engineer with a decade of experience building performant C++ systems and cross-platform applications, currently contributing at Microsoft from Estonia. He has deep hands-on experience in game porting and platform interoperability (PS5, Xbox Series, macOS, Linux) from his work at Owlcat Games, and has maintained and extended legacy C++ services in large-scale mail infrastructure at Mail.ru. An active open-source contributor, he improved Krita’s UI, OpenGL rendering and performance-sensitive subsystems during a KDE/GSoC project—replacing lock-based structures with lock-free designs and optimizing tile hash tables. Always learning, he balances backend systems, UI work and low-level optimization, and enjoys setting technical challenges for himself to drive steady growth.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
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Github Skills (16)
hashtable10
uid10
c-language10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
opengl10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
k10
optimization9
optimisation9
numerical-optimization9
algorithm9
code-optimization9
algorithms9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/krita
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & UI Developer
Back-end Developer & UI DeveloperContributions:108 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrey primarily contributed to the Krita project by implementing features related to the user interface and back-end functionality for digital art creation. Their work includes adding options for grid display and controlling cursor and grid colors within the application. Additionally, they modified and optimized components within the user interface and OpenGL rendering aspects of the application. The user also refactored and optimized code related to the tile hash table for improved performance.
qt-framework
lieroz/.dotfiles
Nov 2018 - May 2025
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
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