Arpad Borsos
Senior Software Engineer at Sentry (sentry.io)
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolArpad Borsos is a Senior Software Engineer with 18+ years of cross‑stack experience, now working on developer tooling and native platforms at Codecov and Sentry from Vienna. He blends deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript with substantial systems work in Rust and C/C++, driving performance and reliability improvements across SDKs, build tools, and the Rust ecosystem. A prolific open‑source contributor and maintainer, his patches touch high‑profile projects like rust-lang/rust, cargo, Svelte, Rollup and several Sentry SDKs, including notable work adding Hermes bytecode support to sentry-cli. He mentors Rust developers, champions Rust adoption in mixed-language codebases, and presented at EuroRust 2023. Known for pragmatic engineering, he balances low‑level optimization and test automation with developer ergonomics—he also maintains popular tooling such as rust-cache and several TypeScript utilities.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Multimedia & Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Multimedia & Software Engineering at Fachhochschule Technikum Wien
Github Skills (59)
json10
caching10
es6-modules10
github-ci10
javascript10
c-language10
sentry10
cargo10
testing10
rustdoc10
typescript10
templater10
template-engine10
c1110
bundle10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
Swatinem/rust-cache
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
A GitHub Action that implements smart caching for rust/cargo projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 releases, 82 reviews, 92 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Arpad's primary contribution focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of a Rust-based caching GitHub Action. They modified the code to collect packages with all features enabled, improved logging for better debugging, and introduced the ability to version the caches. Further, they contributed to a macOS workaround and implemented target directory cleaning. Moreover, the user removed the git-db for now, key target by job id automatically, and merged the registry caches.
cachingrust
getsentry/sentry-native
Jan 2020 - Oct 2022
Sentry SDK for C, C++ and native applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 289 reviews, 273 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Arpad primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Sentry SDK by implementing the curl transport and integrating its features. They introduced debug and trace logs for better code observability. The user also made significant changes to the session handling logic, including handling the init flag and ensuring proper operation. Furthermore, they improved the robustness of the module finder and JSON parsing by fixing memory-related issues.
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