Gellért Hegyi
Engineer at Pencil.dev
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolGellért Hegyi is an engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack applications and leading engineering teams across Europe, currently based in the Zürich area. He combines deep frontend expertise in React and Angular with Node.js backend work, and has iOS experience in both Objective-C and Swift. A long-time open source maintainer of Electron at GitHub, he’s contributed cross-process APIs and platform-specific window management fixes to a project used by millions—evidence of his ability to work on large, cross-platform codebases. His contributions to tools like cmake-js show attention to developer ergonomics and native build workflows. He has progressed from hands-on engineering at startups to engineering management roles, bringing both technical depth and product-minded system design to complex problems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree with honours BSc Computer Scientist, Bachelor's degree with honours BSc Computer Scientist at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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Github Skills (16)
webbrowser10
nodejs10
build-system10
api10
cmake10
javascript10
web-development10
browser10
electron10
apidoc10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
macos8
css8
html8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
electron/electron
Aug 2015 - Jul 2022
:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 106 commits, 26 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gellért contributed to the Electron framework, demonstrating proficiency in both browser and renderer processes. Their primary focus was on implementing new APIs and features, such as `SetOffscreenRender`, and improving the existing codebase related to window management and OS-specific functionalities (e.g., macOS). The user addressed identified issues by providing necessary fixes and ensured the framework's stability by making required corrections.
jsc-plus-plusdesktop-appscssjavascript
cmake-js/cmake-js
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
CMake.js - a Node.js native addon build tool
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Gellért primarily focused on enhancing the `cmake-js` build tool, specifically by introducing and refining options for custom configurations. The user modified the core CMake build system, including adding functionality to handle custom build options. They also updated the process of how custom options get passed to the CMake configure command. Further improvements were made by allowing the user to silence CMake output and providing an option to specify an output directory.
cppcmakecmake-jsnode-jsn-api
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