Elnar Dakeshov
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolElnar Dakeshov is a compiler-focused software engineer with six years of experience building C++ frontends and language features at Microsoft and Synopsys, including shipping a conformant preprocessor and C11/17 support and advancing constexpr and standard library behavior. He’s worked across systems—from embedded real-time code and GPU tools to full-stack mobile apps—bringing a practical, performance-minded approach to language and tooling design. Based in Toronto, he pairs a deep hobbyist interest in game development and graphics with production-grade compiler engineering, often bridging low-level systems thinking and developer ergonomics. Known for tackling standards conformance and quality improvements, he combines academic CS foundations from the University of Waterloo with a track record of shipping complex, platform-spanning software.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Russian
Github Skills (37)
cpp-library10
standard-library10
stl10
cpp10
encryption8
api8
api-documentation8
cryptography8
zip8
ssl8
tar8
decryption7
rar7
openssl7
crypto7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eldakesh-ms/STL
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
MSVC's implementation of the C++ Standard Library.
Contributions:55 pushes, 26 branches in 1 month
cppc-plus-plusstandard-librarymsvccpp17
eldakesh-ms/cpp-docs
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
C++ Documentation
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
cppc-plus-plusdocstrings
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