Iskander Sharipov
Software Engineer at quasilyte tech
Yerevan, Armenia
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Top SchoolIskander Sharipov is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in compilers, toolchains and static analysis, currently contributing to daslang at Gaijin Entertainment while shipping indie games under quasilyte tech. He has deep expertise in Go and PHP toolchains—contributing tests and new instruction support to golang/go, improving Go LSP and linters like go-critic, and working on the KPHP compiler at VK and elsewhere. His work blends low-level compiler/assembler optimizations (AVX-512, x86 vector instructions) with developer-facing tooling such as code search/refactoring (phpgrep, gogrep), pprof utilities and static analyzers. A prolific open-source contributor, he has fixed language tooling bugs, added nuanced diagnostics and implemented performance-minded changes across major repos. Outside core systems, he applies the same engineering craft to gamedev (Godot, ebiten) and creative hobbies like 3D-printing and drawing, reflecting a blend of precision engineering and creative problem solving. He prefers to go by Alex.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Kazan State UniversityMaster's degree, Informatics and Engineering, Master's degree, Informatics and Engineering at Nizhniy Novgorod State Technical University named after R.Y. Alekseev (NSTU)
English, Russian, Tatar, Esperanto
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Github Skills (46)
code-optimization10
assembly10
c-language10
testing10
databases10
distributed-systems10
language-server-protocol10
software-quality10
cffi10
wpgraphql10
manipulation10
graphql-go10
language-server10
code-analysis10
go10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
go-critic/go-critic
May 2018 - Oct 2022
The most opinionated Go source code linter for code audit.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 117 reviews, 386 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Iskander primarily contributed to the `go-critic/go-critic` repository by enhancing the linter's functionality through the addition of new checkers. Their work included implementing features such as the detection of redundant type assertions, and improving existing checkers. This indicates a focus on improving code quality, identifying potential performance issues, and providing diagnostics within Go codebases.
golanglinterlintpackstyle-checkeraudit
VKCOM/kphp
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
KPHP — a PHP compiler
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:252 reviews, 126 commits, 175 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Iskander primarily contributed to the KPHP compiler, a PHP compiler project. They implemented features related to trailing commas in function calls, list assignments, and added support for the `<?= ` tag. The user's work included improving error messages and optimizing internal functions, demonstrating a focus on code correctness and performance. Furthermore, the user improved FFI support by addressing aspects like better type inference and support for array operations.
kphpphp-compilerphpphp71phalcon
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