Evgeny Grin
Senior Software Developer at GNU Taler
Geneva Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolEvgeny Grin is a Senior Software Developer based in the Geneva area with 13 years of engineering experience and a background spanning R&D leadership, product strategy and hands-on systems work. He combines deep backend and automation expertise—demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like curl and MSYS2—with experience in test automation, cross-platform Windows fixes, and tooling for terminal emulators. At GNU Taler and Actility he applies this technical breadth to secure payments and IoT/LoRaWAN domains, while his earlier roles show proven capability scaling teams and processes in industry and startup settings. His CV pairs PhD-level telecommunications and a physics master’s with practical product delivery, from building DVB networks to shipping consumer-facing apps and embedded metering platforms. Notably, he frequently bridges low-level system quirks and higher-level product needs—fixing WinSock data-loss issues one week and designing transmission plugins or CPU-detection macros the next. This blend of systems debugging, automation, and strategic product thinking makes him effective at turning obscure platform problems into reliable features.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Telecommunications, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Telecommunications at Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI)Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (53)
c-language10
system-programming10
multiplatform10
python10
scripting10
testing10
windows10
autoconf10
http10
msys10
cross-platform10
c1110
batchfile10
libcurl10
autotools10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/xbmc
Jul 2012 - Feb 2022
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 826 commits, 42 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Evgeny primarily contributed to the Kodi media center project by fixing bugs and improving the codebase related to various system information components. Their work focused on correcting issues related to compiler version reporting, platform version decoding, and test implementations. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with directory handling and file loading within the Windows operating system environment. Finally, they also made significant improvements by restructuring and optimizing utility functions like `auto_buffer` and `StringUtils`.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
msys2/MSYS2-packages
Apr 2016 - Sep 2021
Package scripts for MSYS2.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:25 commits, 13 PRs, 28 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Evgeny primarily contributed to the improvement and automation of shell scripts related to the MSYS2 environment. Their work involved modifying and refactoring the `.bat` files used to launch different shell types (MSYS2, MinGW), improving working directory handling, and adding support for various terminal emulators like ConEmu. The user also addressed parameter handling, added a mechanism to pass bash parameters, and introduced a feature allowing users to execute commands and receive the return code in batch.
gentoopackagingmsys2package-scripts
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