Lachezar Lechev
Chief Executive Officer at Lechev.space Ltd
Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolLachezar Lechev is an aerospace-focused software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building software and hardware for space, robotics, and UAV systems. As CEO of Lechev.space and co-founder of the AeroRust community, he combines hands-on R&D with open-source leadership to advance Rust usage in safety-critical aerospace applications. His contributions span embedded Rust (notably fixing ADC/SPI issues in the popular embassy-rs framework), wasm-bindgen string integrations, and backend systems for projects like Stremio and rust-headless-chrome. He has a strong track record of shipping reliable async Rust, CI/CD improvements, and tooling enhancements while organizing meetups and conferences to grow the community. An environmentalist and communicator at heart, he pairs technical depth with advocacy—turning domain knowledge into open-source projects and talks that aim to make aerospace safer and more sustainable.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Professional High-School of Construction, Architecture and Surveying "Lybor Baier"The University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski"
Bulgarian, English, German
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Github Skills (42)
asynchronous10
javascript10
strings10
back-end-development10
api-design10
async10
static-site-generator10
testing10
text-manipulation10
generator10
rust-wasm10
spi10
browser-automation10
binding10
wasmer10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
Stremio/stremio-core
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
⚛️ The Stremio Core: types, addon system, UI models, core logic
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 244 reviews, 62 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lachezar implemented a data export model within the Stremio core. This involved creating the necessary data export functionality and integrating it with the existing system's types, runtime messages, and API requests/responses. Furthermore, the user also added a unit test for the data export functionality to test this. The user's work included modifications to the core models, message structures, and API request/response types.
logicaddonstremiosystem-ui
rust-headless-chrome/rust-headless-chrome
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
A high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It is the Rust equivalent of Puppeteer, a Node library maintained by the Chrome DevTools team.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Lachezar contributed to core functionality within the `rust-headless-chrome` project. Their commits focused on modifying browser-related code, including implementing a clonable browser, fixing the fetcher module, and adjusting shutdown channels. These changes indicate an effort to improve the browser's internal workings, stability, and potentially its resource management. Furthermore, the user demonstrated a solid understanding of Rust, concurrency, and the project's architecture.
node-librarychromiumheadlesshigh-levelnodejs
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