Mikita Belahlazau
Staff Software Engineer at audiobooks.by
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolMikita Belahlazau is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient, full‑stack systems and contributing to high‑impact open source projects. A long tenure at Google followed by a current role at Waymo reflects deep expertise in large-scale engineering, compiler/type systems, and front-end performance work—evident from contributions to Closure Compiler, AMP, and Kythe. He pairs systems-level backend work with thoughtful UX and visualization improvements, having enhanced editor tooling, plotting in Incanter, and responsive ad behavior in AMP. Founder of audiobooks.by, he also champions cultural projects by producing and promoting Belarusian audiobooks, showing an uncommon mix of technical leadership and community entrepreneurship.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist (Master's equivalent), Computer Science, Specialist (Master's equivalent), Computer Science at Belaruski Dziarzhauny Universitet
English, Russian, Russian
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Github Skills (62)
data-visualizations10
closure10
javascript10
lib10
type-check10
api-design10
clojure-cli10
thread-safety10
es6-promise10
ampl10
testing10
charts10
css10
statistics10
date-parsing10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
quil/quil
Jul 2012 - Jan 2022
Main repo. Quil source code.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 458 commits, 55 PRs in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mikita primarily contributed to the Quil library by implementing new features and fixing bugs. They added an "on-close" function, which improved application lifecycle management. Additionally, the user removed the quil.dynamics module and refactored code, demonstrating the ability to adapt the library to evolving design principles, and improve efficiency.
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google/closure-compiler
Sep 2016 - Mar 2022
A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 109 commits, 46 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mikita primarily contributed to the Closure Compiler project by implementing and refining the type checking functionality of the JavaScript compiler. Their work involved adding checks to verify the stringifiability of object keys, handling named types, and supporting object type key checks for function types. They also addressed source map bugs related to source mapping and contributed to the development of the symbol table, including improvements for indexing and handling of ES6 features and module systems such as goog.module and CommonJS modules.
checkerjavascriptoptimizationtypecheckingoptimizer
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