Pavel Taykalo
Software Engineer at MacPaw Inc.
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Top SchoolPavlo Taykalo is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently driving engineering work at MacPaw from Kyiv. He combines deep iOS and Swift expertise with strong automation and build-release skills, previously leading the iOS unit at Stanfy for several years. Pavlo is an active open-source contributor to notable projects like SwiftLint, Fastlane and SourceKitten, where he has improved linting rules, provisioning flows and core string handling. His contributions span UI-focused tooling (an Objective-C/Swift dependency visualizer) to developer productivity scripts that find unused Swift code, showing an ability to improve both developer experience and runtime quality. Comfortable across frontend, mobile, QA and automation domains, he often focuses on performance optimizations and practical tooling that uncover hidden coupling and unused code. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and build-time improvements that make large codebases easier to maintain.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
static-analysis10
strings10
testing10
text-manipulation10
css10
user-interface10
fastlane10
software-quality10
refactor10
ruby10
automation10
junit10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
PaulTaykalo/swift-scripts
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
Some useful scripts for swift developers
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:33 commits, 13 PRs, 27 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to a Ruby script designed to identify unused Swift code within a project. Their work involved refining the script's functionality through iterative improvements. They added time-checking features, integrated an Xcode output option for better integration with the IDE, and implemented regular expressions for file exclusion. These contributions aimed to enhance the script's accuracy and usability in a Swift development environment.
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PaulTaykalo/objc-dependency-visualizer
Jul 2013 - Apr 2019
Objective-C and Swift dependency visualizer. It's tool that helps to visualize current state of your project. It's really easy to see how tight your classes are coupled.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 204 commits, 34 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily updated and enhanced the Objective-C and Swift dependency visualizer's front-end components. Their work involved modifications to the `index.html` file, including changes to styling, form elements (like range inputs and checkboxes), and the implementation of interactive features such as zooming, dragging, and filtering. These changes focused on refining the user interface and improving the visual representation of the dependency graph.
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