Nikolay Garbuzov is a pragmatic technology leader and hands-on CTO based in the United Arab Emirates with six years of professional experience building and scaling engineering teams and products. He blends deep Java backend expertise and systems-level thinking with multi-language fluency in C++, C#, Python and Lua, and has contributed debugging and tracing features to the widely used PPSSPP emulator. His career spans senior engineering and architecture roles at Revolut, Crossover, and multiple consulting engagements where he focused on complex, performance-sensitive systems and code quality. Known for enjoying reverse-engineering challenges and rigorous review/testing practices, he brings a hacker’s curiosity to production-grade engineering. With a Master’s in Computational and Applied Mathematics, he couples formal analytical skills with pragmatic product delivery and team leadership.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computational and Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Computational and Applied Mathematics at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:26 reviews, 5 commits, 35 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily contributed to the development and modification of a PSP emulator. Their work focused on enhancing the debugger's capabilities, specifically by implementing features related to function symbol management and trace functionality. This included adding new commands to the WebSocket API, improving the handling of memory ranges, and integrating a trace logging system for instruction execution. These changes aimed to improve debugging and analysis capabilities.
Contributions:2 PRs, 138 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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