Boris Pek
Senior Software Engineer at Debian
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Pek is a Senior Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building cross-platform C++/Qt applications, currently contributing to Astra Linux’s mobile desktop and general-purpose software. A long-time FOSS maintainer and Debian developer since 2010, he combines production engineering with open-source stewardship—most notably improving the QXMPP C++ XMPP library’s reliability, builds and testing infrastructure. His expertise spans GUI and CLI apps, real-time communications (IM/VoIP/Video), file-sharing systems, numerical simulations and fintech, while deliberately avoiding low-level kernel or driver work. Comfortable across Linux, Windows and Android targets, he also brings hands-on QA and DevOps skills, having fixed memory leaks, hardened CI and worked with multimedia stacks like GStreamer.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Physics, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Physics at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Университет / Saint Petersburg State University
Russian, Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (11)
xmpp10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
continuous-integration9
gstreamer9
cin9
spell8
spelling8
spellchecking8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
qxmpp-project/qxmpp
Mar 2014 - May 2022
Cross-platform C++ XMPP client and server library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 11 PRs, 21 pushes in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Boris primarily contributed to the QXMPP library by addressing code quality issues and enhancing build and testing infrastructure. They fixed memory leaks and other minor cosmetic code issues, while also adding variables initialization to constructors. The user updated the Travis CI configuration to improve build support and also fixed spelling errors within the codebase. In addition, they implemented changes related to GStreamer methods.
xmppcmakec-plus-plusqt5xmpp-client
tehnick/freedcpp-debian
Feb 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 tags in 5 years 1 month
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