Orhun Parmaksız
Chief Grind Officer at Arch Linux
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolOrhun Parmaksız is a systems-oriented Rust engineer and open-source maintainer with nine years of experience building reliable tooling, CLIs, and terminal UIs while driving packaging and infrastructure work for Arch Linux. He leads and contributes to notable Rust projects—co-maintaining ratatui, creating git-cliff, and shipping utilities like kmon and gpg-tui—while also improving cross-platform libraries such as image-rs and uutils/coreutils. As Grindhouse’s Chief Grind Officer and a self-employed developer, he blends community building with hands-on engineering, and has applied his expertise to game tooling, CI/CD, and secure backend services. Orhun’s work often spans low-level system details (nix error conversions, binary relocation, rpath) to delightful UX in TUIs and games, reflecting a rare combination of systems depth and polish. He’s based in Ankara and actively advances reproducible builds, packaging security, and developer ergonomics across the Rust ecosystem.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Software Engineering at Çankaya ÜniversitesiMaster's degree Business Administration and Management General, Master's degree Business Administration and Management General at Ankara UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ankara Atatürk Anadolu Lisesi
English, Turkish, German
Github Skills (76)
python10
image-processing10
testing10
command-line-interface10
refactor10
refactoring10
web-development10
game-development10
installers10
command-line-parser10
archlinux10
sh10
rust10
configparser10
shell10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
orhun/kmon
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor 🐧💻
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 77 reviews, 1550 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Orhun's contributions primarily revolved around building and enhancing the "kmon" project, a Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor. Their work included implementing command-line argument parsing, setting up the terminal UI using the `tui` and `termion` crates, and creating a function for executing system commands to test command execution. The user also added error handling and improved the design and rendering of the terminal user interface. They also added various features to the module information display.
kernelkernel-modulesmonitoroperating-systemsoperating-system
orhun/git-cliff
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
A highly customizable Changelog Generator that follows Conventional Commit specifications ⛰️
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 502 reviews, 471 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Orhun primarily focused on implementing features for the command-line interface (CLI) of the git-cliff project. Their contributions include adding a parser powered by `structopt`, setting up logging using `pretty_env_logger`, and integrating a configuration file parser. They were also involved in creating the core logic for parsing commits, processing releases, and implementing the ability to process commits from a specified range.
changelogcommitsconventional-changelogsemverrust
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