Ladi Prosek
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolLadi Prosek is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable tooling, virtualization, and infrastructure software, now contributing to Rust tooling at Microsoft. He has deep systems-level expertise from work on the .NET runtime and MSBuild, plus embedded and driver-level contributions such as adding virtio 1.0 support to the iPXE bootloader and co-maintaining virtio-win for Red Hat. Comfortable across backend, automation, and front-end layers, he’s improved build performance, resolver logic, and accessibility in cross-platform libraries while keeping an eye on practical deployability. His open-source footprint includes notable projects like dotnet/msbuild, dotnet/sdk, and ipxe/ipxe, where his changes improved multi-process build reliability and modern device support. Based in Brno, he blends low-level engineering rigor with incremental automation wins—aptly summarized by his GitHub tagline, “Twiddling bits for a living.”
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at Univerzita Karlova
English, Czech
Github Skills (47)
kvm10
javascript10
python10
msbuild10
net10
typescript10
build-system10
dotnet10
c1110
virtio10
c1710
kernel10
asp-net10
automation10
ipxe10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/msbuild
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1125 reviews, 142 commits, 250 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ladi primarily contributed to the Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) project, focusing on improving its core functionality. Their work involved addressing issues related to AfterTargets failures in multi-process builds, including moving logic to the worker process. The user's changes involved refactoring and enhancements in target processing and deserialization of project items. These modifications improved the reliability and efficiency of MSBuild builds.
dotnetbuild-enginesqfmsbuildcsharp
microsoft/reactxp
Feb 2018 - Jun 2019
Library for cross-platform app development.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 14 PRs, 42 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ladi primarily contributed to the ReactXP library, focusing on web-based component improvements and bug fixes. They addressed accessibility concerns by implementing `white-space:pre` for the aria-live region. They also worked on performance optimizations by deferring layout calculations and problematic `tabIndex` changes. Furthermore, the user implemented hidden scroll indicators and addressed popup-related issues.
app-platformwindowsandroidioscross-platform
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