Gennadiy Civil
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Dropbox
New York, New York, United States
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Gennadiy Civil is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in New York with 11+ years of leadership driving large-scale platform transformations, developer tooling, and cloud/SaaS infrastructure. He has led industry-scale refactorings (including open-sourcing Abseil) and delivered Cloud Code IDE integrations used by hundreds of thousands of engineers, blending hands-on engineering with cross-team program leadership. Known for pragmatic Agile and quality-first practices, he has repeatedly reduced outages and cycle times while scaling inclusive, high-performing teams across enterprise and startup contexts. Gennadiy also integrates modern AI/ML into developer workflows—having helped launch Gemini Code Assist—while teaching Practical Software Engineering at NYU to prepare future engineers for production realities. His open-source and QA contributions to projects like GoogleTest reflect a deep commitment to testing, developer velocity, and maintainable code at scale.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering Robotics, BS Electrical Engineering Robotics at Odessa State Academy of RefrigerationMS Information Systems, MS Information Systems at Pace University
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Github Skills (11)
test-framework10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
testing10
console6
java6
hornetq6
jms6
python6
xml5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
google/googletest
May 2017 - Dec 2019
GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1287 commits, 1225 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gennadiy's contributions focused on modifying and expanding the Google Test framework's functionality. They made changes to add features like a test to check the performance, adding functionality to add XML attributes, and including the ability to ignore certain code in gtest. They also enhanced the test suite and added some test files.
googletestinggoogletestmockingmock
gennadiycivil/googletest
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Google Test
Contributions:3 commits, 407 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
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