George Y
Global Senior Principal Solution Architect at Bitdefender
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Y is a Global Senior Principal Solution Architect with 21 years of hands-on experience designing and stewarding OEM SDKs, API governance, and large-scale integrations across cybersecurity, cloud, networking, and embedded devices. At Bitdefender he scaled an OEM licensing practice to 200+ partners, serving as the API design authority and driving partner enablement, technical sales support, and strategic architecture from Sunnyvale while coordinating engineering teams in Romania. His background spans low-level engine ports, cross-platform C/C++ work across UNIX variants and embedded architectures, plus tooling for license distribution and secure SDK delivery. He regularly produces attorney-ready vulnerability and patent analyses, partners with legal on contract feasibility, and owns high-impact escalations and PoCs for global vendors. A long-time attendee of RSA, Black Hat, and DEF CON since 2008, he leverages deep industry visibility and threat awareness to inform product strategy and competitive positioning. Outside core duties he maintains OSS projects for cross-platform/Qt tooling and writes on SDK design and integration best practices, reflecting a blend of pragmatic engineering and strategic OEM leadership.
21 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Systems and Control Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Systems and Control Engineering at National University Lviv Polytechnics
Russian, English, Ukrainian, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (147)
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thunderbird10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gyunaev/karlyriceditor
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
lyrics editor and CD+G/video exporter for Karaoke
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 38 commits in 2 years 3 months
exportersinginglrcpyside6mp3
gyunaev/kchmviewer
Apr 2005 - Jan 2022
kchmviewer is a CHM (Winhelp) files viewer written on Qt/KDE. It can be build as a standalone Qt-based application, or a KDE application. The main point of kchmviewer is compatibility with non-English chm files, including most international charsets.
Contributions:3 releases, 20 reviews, 481 commits in 16 years 11 months
qt6qmlchmlinuxqt4
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