Sergei Bugaev
Build Engineer at Strikerz Inc.
Yerevan, Armenia
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Top SchoolSergei Bugaev is a seasoned build and DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining low-level, system-focused tooling and infrastructure from Yerevan. He has a strong Unix hacker mindset—contributing substantively to high-profile open-source projects such as systemd and glibc—where his work improved container detection, DNS resolution, and mmap/TLS interactions. Sergei blends pragmatic DevOps at companies like Saber Interactive and Nexign with deep systems programming, shipping performance optimizations in projects like SerenityOS and Wayland clipboard utilities. Notably, he implements obscure, “cursed” but practical fixes across kernels, libc bindings, and emulation layers (darling), showing a taste for under-the-hood problems few tackle. Currently a Build Engineer at Strikerz, he quietly balances production reliability with experimental system-level contributions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech IT Engineer, Bachelor of Technology - BTech IT Engineer at ITMO University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (56)
libc10
filesystem10
performance-monitor10
performance-analytics10
c-language10
unix10
software-design10
system-programming10
multithreading10
compiler-development10
init10
mdns10
memory-management10
linux10
process-management10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
bugaevc/wl-clipboard
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
Command-line copy/paste utilities for Wayland
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 220 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sergei primarily contributed to the implementation of command-line utilities for Wayland clipboard operations. Their work involved developing `wl-copy`, which implements a basic text copying functionality, and `wl-paste`, which handles the pasting of clipboard content. They also focused on enhancing the utilities with options like `--trim-newline`, primary selection support, and improving the type inference for the content copied. These changes significantly improved the features and functionality of the Wayland clipboard utilities.
waylandclipboardcopy-paste
darlinghq/darling
Dec 2016 - Dec 2020
Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 191 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sergei primarily worked on implementing the core functionality of the 'darling' executable, which appears to be a macOS emulation layer for Linux. They implemented the main program logic, including system calls and interaction with the kernel module. Furthermore, the user addressed path handling, process spawning, and environment variable configuration within the emulated environment. They also implemented the 'shutdown' command, and fixed code to resolve several build and runtime errors.
emulatorlinuxdarwinemulationmacos
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