Stan Halauko
Embedded Software Team Lead at needCode
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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Top SchoolStan Halauko is an Embedded Software Team Lead based in Kraków with 13 years of hands-on experience delivering cross-platform, performance-sensitive systems. He combines embedded firmware leadership at needCode with deep low-level troubleshooting demonstrated across notable open-source projects—fixing Windows-specific GUI issues in git-cola, refining frame timing in NVIDIA’s Quake II RTX, and stabilizing the OpenMW engine for MSVC builds. Comfortable across back-end, system architecture and Android service work, he has a track record of reducing complexity, improving portability, and rescuing bitrot in long-lived codebases. Formally trained in mechatronics and robotics (AGH and University of Stuttgart), Stan brings a hardware-aware perspective to software problems, often tackling platform interoperability and timing/latency issues that others overlook.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at University of StuttgartMaster of Engineering - MEng Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at AGH University of KrakowForeign Languages and Literatures studies - Polish Language, Foreign Languages and Literatures studies - Polish Language at Cracow University of Technology
Polish, Russian, English, German, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (45)
debugging10
git10
debug10
maintenance10
c-language10
platform-agnostic10
game-engine10
qt10
python10
multiplatform10
windows10
service-management10
cmake10
cross-platform10
c1110
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
opentrack/opentrack
Sep 2012 - Jan 2023
Head tracking software for MS Windows, Linux, and Apple OSX
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 41 reviews, 6433 commits in 10 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stan's commits focused on improving the functionality of the opentrack software. These improvements included fixing bitrot issues within the migration process, optimizing the pipeline logic, and integrating new features such as the tray icon functionality. Additionally, they addressed build issues across different systems and updated dependencies.
c-plus-plus-17c-plus-plusheadwiimoteheadtracking
pasky/pachi
Nov 2013 - Oct 2018
A fairly strong Go/Baduk/Weiqi playing program
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 9 comments in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Stan primarily focused on optimizing the performance and efficiency of the Go/Baduk/Weiqi playing program, Pachi. Their contributions include code modifications to reduce memory usage, improve cache efficiency in the tree structure, and fix potential overflow issues. The user also addressed platform-specific issues and added features such as displaying color information for regression tests, highlighting their focus on code quality and debugging.
golangweiqibadukplaying
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