Stepan Hruda
Software Engineer at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolStepan Hruda is a seasoned Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable mobile and tooling systems, currently shaping developer experiences at Facebook in New York. He has led architecture and technical direction for mobile teams—pushing Swift adoption, reducing tech debt, and driving full native rewrites—while also contributing deep full‑stack and backend expertise to prominent open-source projects like Nuclide, idb and Buck. Comfortable across iOS, build systems and DevOps, he’s shipped practical improvements from debugger integrations and ADB reliability to simulator automation and build flavor auditing. Known for thoughtful architecture choices and hands‑on execution, he combines product-minded engineering with a penchant for improving developer workflows. An unassuming detail: he’s regularly modernized legacy codebases (Objective‑C literals, model overhauls) to make them more maintainable and testable.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business and Administration, Bachelor's degree, Business and Administration at Masaryk University
German, Czech, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
unit-testing10
debugging10
objective-c10
buck10
javascript10
ropc10
android-adb10
ios10
testing10
drpc10
command-line-interface10
java10
javas10
rpc10
procedures10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kiwi-bdd/Kiwi
Feb 2013 - Sep 2013
Simple BDD for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:37 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Stepan primarily focused on updating the codebase to modern Objective-C syntax. This involved changes to code using literals. Additionally, the user contributed to adding method implementations by modifying classes and associated files. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and updating the iOS-specific BDD framework's functionality.
bddios
facebookarchive/nuclide
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
An open IDE for web and native mobile development, built on top of Atom
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:346 commits, 7 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Stepan contributed to the implementation of a new command, `nuclide-test-runner:run-tests`, and improved the native debugger's naming conventions. They also added a configuration field for custom LLDB python paths. The user also worked on the device panel, including tasks such as the ability to open tunnels via any available port and displaying device details, further improving the user experience for developers.
mobile-developmentopen-ide
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