Nico Semko
Carlsbad, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNico Semko is a software engineer with 7 years of experience focused on developer productivity, build systems, and test/telemetry optimization, currently based in Carlsbad, California. He has contributed to high-impact open source projects like Facebook's Buck, refactoring core build logic to improve performance and maintainability. His work at companies such as DoorDash and Meta centers on speeding up builds and tests and extracting actionable telemetry to improve developer workflows. With a strong academic background—a Master's in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Mathematics—he brings rigorous problem-solving and attention to algorithmic detail to engineering challenges. Colleagues know him for finding non-obvious optimizations, such as moving logic out of hot loops to yield measurable build-time gains.
7 years of coding experience
Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics at Kyiv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum №145Master's degree (Diploma with distinction), Computer Science, Master's degree (Diploma with distinction), Computer Science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (6)
javas10
build-system10
java10
optimization10
command-line-tool8
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
facebook/buck
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
A fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:856 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nico contributed to the `facebook/buck` repository, a fast build system, by refactoring and optimizing existing code. The user's work involved modifying core Java files related to command execution, dependency management, and resource handling, specifically moving logic outside of loops for optimization. Additionally, they addressed local variable naming issues in the `ThriftUtil.java` file. The user also introduced new parameters and deprecated old ones for the query command.
build-systembuild-tooljavapythonandroid
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