Yaroslav Heriatovych
Software Engineer at Lyft
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYaroslav Heriatovych is a versatile software engineer with 16 years of experience building backend and frontend systems for mobile and web, currently contributing at Lyft from Porto. His background spans startups and scale-ups—Grammarly, Badoo and Attendify—where he shipped Android and backend features, bridging product-facing apps and server-side services. A strong systems thinker, he has notable open-source work porting Emacs internals from C to Rust in the remacs project, demonstrating deep language and low-level design skills. He combines pragmatic production engineering with a curiosity for language-level details, rooted in a computer engineering degree from Kyiv Polytechnic.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (5)
rust10
back-end-development10
lisp9
editors8
editor8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
remacs/remacs
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Rust :heart: Emacs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 9 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Yaroslav primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the remacs/remacs repository, focusing on porting features from the C codebase to Rust. Their work includes implementing core Emacs Lisp functions like `window-start`, `window-minibuffer-p`, and `process-name`. The user also refactored and improved the code, extracting functions and fixing bitfield orderings. The user demonstrated skills in Rust programming and a deep understanding of Emacs internals.
rustheartemacseditormelpa
Yarikx/Oboobs
Jun 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:76 commits in 1 year 7 months
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