Petar Tasev
Software Engineer at Illumina
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPetar Tasev is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building embedded systems, tooling, and backend libraries across industries from biomedical instruments to game development. Based in San Diego, he currently develops software for DNA sequencing instruments at Illumina and previously shipped rendering and tooling work for Forgotten Empires’ Age of Mythology remasters. His background spans low-level DSP and firmware on ARM chips, real-time vision and camera calibration for stereoscopic systems, and high-quality .NET libraries—he contributed meaningful memory and image-processing improvements to the popular SixLabors/ImageSharp project. Petar combines systems-level rigor with product focus, often moving between C/C++ firmware, C# tooling, and algorithmic code; an uncommon throughline is his knack for turning reverse-engineered formats and hardware constraints into reliable developer-facing tools.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mt Carmel High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at San Diego State University
English, Macedonian
Github Skills (9)
netcore10
csharp10
image-processing10
drawing9
png7
webp7
tiff7
jpeg7
bmp7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SixLabors/ImageSharp
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
:camera: A modern, cross-platform, 2D Graphics library for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 12 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Petar primarily contributed to the image processing library by adding functionality to the resize options, specifically the premultiply alpha feature. Their commits involved modifying core processing classes, such as `ResizeProcessor` and `ResizeOptions`, along with adding corresponding tests. Furthermore, the user refactored code by splitting `PixelConversionModifiers` into a separate function and added overloads to `Image.WrapMemory` for `IMemoryOwner<byte>`. These changes indicate enhancements to the library's core functionality and memory management.
bmpvulkancamerac-sharpjpeg
ptasev/Age-of-Mythology
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Libraries and apps for interacting with files for the Age of Mythology game.
Contributions:161 commits, 98 pushes, 8 tags in 4 years 9 months
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