Konstantin Isakov
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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SeniorKonstantin Isakov is a seasoned software engineer with 16+ years building systems from embedded firmware to large-scale Linux services, currently maintaining preproduction environments for a leading web analytics solution at Google. He brings deep C/C++ and low-level expertise—assembly, SIMD, x86/ARM/AVR/8051/PIC architectures—paired with broad experience in networking, USB, kernel internals, and Qt-based GUIs. Konstantin has led full-cycle game and hardware-software projects, created production tooling and firmware for custom peripherals, and architected core infrastructure and build systems for new engineering departments. An active open-source contributor, he has improved and stabilized GoldenDict and parallelized critical components like bzip2 for SMP machines. Fluent in English and Russian with intermediate Portuguese, he combines pragmatic system design with performance-minded optimizations and a knack for rescuing complex legacy codebases.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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goldendict/goldendict
May 2010 - Mar 2013
A feature-rich dictionary lookup program, supporting multiple dictionary formats (StarDict/Babylon/Lingvo/Dictd) and online dictionaries, featuring perfect article rendering with the complete markup, illustrations and other content retained, and allowing you to type in words without any accents or correct case.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin primarily focused on bug fixes and code improvements within the GoldenDict project, a feature-rich dictionary program. Their contributions involved reverting faulty changes, limiting resource consumption in DSL processing, updating translation files, and fixing bword:// links for different dictionary formats. Furthermore, the user resolved issues with Hunspell, addressing crashes with multiple dictionaries and improving the handling of multi-word queries.
stardictpythonfeature-richperfectillustrations
zbackup/zbackup
Jul 2013 - Feb 2016
ZBackup, a versatile deduplicating backup tool
Contributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 7 months
restorededuplicationbackup-toolversatilebackups
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