Jaroslavs Samcuks
Co-founder & CTO at Stealth AI Startup
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolJaroslavs Samcuks is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with 12+ years building high-load server components and leading engineering teams at companies from Skype to Google, and most recently serving as CTO and co-founder in the AI startup space. Expert in C/C++ and Python, he blends deep systems-level knowledge with strong OO design, automated testing, and server architecture practices, and maintains open-source Python libraries. He has a track record of refactoring and hardening cross-platform code—demonstrated by contributions improving concurrency and build reliability to the giu Dear ImGui-based GUI framework—and thrives on challenging engineering problems. Comfortable in both Unix and Windows environments, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and small-team leadership, bringing pragmatic, production-first solutions informed by an MSc in Electronics.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Electronics, MSc, Electronics at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
Github Skills (10)
go10
cross-platform10
windows-gui10
imgui10
multiplatform10
im10
platform-independent10
concurrency9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AllenDang/giu
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Cross platform rapid GUI framework for golang based on Dear ImGui.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jaroslavs primarily focused on improving the `giu` GUI framework's core functionality and efficiency. Their contributions include refactoring example plots and implementing multi-threading solutions, addressing potential deadlocks, and adding comments to improve code readability. They also made fixes to support cross-platform builds, specifically addressing initial -race conditions within the C++ wrapper. Furthermore, they worked on updating and refining internal code comments.
golanggui-frameworkguigorapid
yarcat/playground-gio
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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