Sergey Borovkov
Software Developer at Screenly Inc
Tbilisi, Georgia
Summary
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Top SchoolSergey Borovkov is a pragmatic software developer with 14 years of experience specializing in device and desktop software, currently building products at Screenly in Tbilisi. He has deep hands-on experience integrating hardware-level features—demonstrated by open-source contributions to snapd that enabled Raspberry Pi HDMI timing customization and SD card introspection via block device interfaces. Sergey blends backend and DevOps skills to bridge firmware-level constraints and production services, ensuring embedded systems behave reliably in the field. His career began in applied development at RTSoft and is grounded in a long-standing technical curiosity dating back to studies at Penza State University.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Penza State University
Github Skills (6)
go10
raspberry-pi10
sys9
embedded9
apparmor8
system-administration7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/snapd
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sergey focused on configuring settings and interfaces for the `snapd` project, specifically related to the Raspberry Pi. They implemented features allowing for customization of HDMI timings and the reading of internal SD card information through the block-devices interface. These changes required modifications to the `picfg.go` and `block_devices.go` files. The user also contributed to enabling additional configurations on the Raspberry Pi hardware.
snapdsnap
Screenly/homebrew-screenly-cli
Jan 2023 - Nov 2024
Homebrew formulae for Screenly CLI
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
formulaescreenlyhomebrewhomebrew-formulaecli
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