Gregor Jasny
Principal Software Development Engineer at GoTo
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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RockstarGregor Jasny is a Principal Software Development Engineer in Dresden with 26 years of experience building robust C/C++ infrastructure and package ecosystems. He has driven reliability and dependency modernization across major open-source projects—conan-center-index, vcpkg, ccache and coturn—demonstrating deep expertise in package management, build systems and memory-safe server code. At GoTo (and previously LogMeIn and Citrix) he has led engineering efforts that bridge QA, DevOps and backend development, regularly contributing test automation and platform-specific fixes for macOS/iOS and Apple Silicon. Gregor’s open-source footprint shows a pragmatic focus on maintainability—bumping deps, fixing resource leaks, and adding fuzz tests—so he improves both developer experience and production stability. An engineer who prefers shipping precise, low-level fixes, he also surfaces cross-cutting improvements like SSL integration and build-system modernizations that benefit entire ecosystems.
26 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (64)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
cpp-library10
caching10
debug10
c-language10
ios10
porting10
lib10
urn10
package-management10
dependency-analysis10
conan10
async10
testing10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jupp0r/prometheus-cpp
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Prometheus Client Library for Modern C++
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 29 reviews, 532 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Gregor primarily contributed to the development of the prometheus-cpp library. Their work included adding a CMake build system, hiding internal Civetweb components, and optimizing the handling of content lengths. They also focused on improving the codebase through the removal of deprecated code, correcting data types, and addressing issues with the C++ standard library.
cppbazelclient-librarymodern-cprometheus
c-ares/c-ares
Sep 2014 - Oct 2021
A C library for asynchronous DNS requests
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 31 PRs, 16 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gregor primarily focused on improving the stability and robustness of the c-ares library. Their contributions involved fixing several Coverity-identified errors, addressing issues related to memory management (null pointer dereferences and freeing temporary variables), and resolving potential integer overflow problems. They also implemented a solution for initializing c-ares on iOS platforms using libresolv and distributed man pages and test files.
asynchronousdnsresolverc-libraryasync
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