Onur Özkan
Maintainer at PX4 Autopilot
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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RockstarOnur Özkan is a maintainer and systems-oriented computer scientist with 8 years of experience focused on compilers, operating systems and UAV software. He led the Rust compiler bootstrap team and contributed significant build, test and release engineering improvements to the flagship rust-lang/rust repository, improving incremental builds and test reliability. Now based in Istanbul, he maintains PX4 Autopilot and brings practical avionics experience alongside kernel- and compiler-level expertise from roles at Komodo and Glomil. Comfortable bridging research and production, he routinely ships infrastructure-level fixes across open-source projects such as the Linux kernel, libp2p and Fedora Infrastructure. Colleagues know him for tackling subtle build-system and tooling problems that unlock faster iteration for large codebases.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Turkish, English
Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
test-integration10
rust10
test-unit10
unit-test10
build-automation10
integration-testing10
testing10
automated-build9
compiler-development9
git9
rustdoc8
code-coverage8
rustfmt8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Build/Release Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build/Release EngineerContributions:904 reviews, 7 commits, 342 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Onur primarily contributed to the build and testing infrastructure of the Rust compiler. They implemented new unit tests to improve code coverage, updated and refactored existing test modules, and incorporated the use of a new `BuildStamp` structure to handle incremental build processes. Furthermore, the user focused on optimizing test runs, enhanced error messages, and ensured compatibility with precompiled compilers, demonstrating expertise in build system design and testing.
crategarbage-collectionrustreliablecompiler
onur-ozkan/sbs
Jan 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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