Yauheni Akhotnikau
Co-Founder at SObjectizer Open-Source project
Homyel, Homyel Region, Belarus
Summary
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RockstarYauheni Akhotnikau is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with over 30 years of hands-on experience and 11 years in formal industry roles, currently co-founding and leading stiffstream. He has deep expertise in high-load telecom systems, having risen from developer to department head at Intervale and led architecture and delivery for SMS/USSD and billing integrations. Yauheni combines long-term engineering rigor with open-source stewardship as project lead for SObjectizer and practical contributions to Microsoft’s widely used vcpkg, where he improved package management and bootstrap automation. He excels at building and reorganizing teams, creating development processes, and bridging research-level knowledge from postgraduate computer science studies into production systems. Based in Homyel, Belarus, he blends systems-level C++ and build automation skills with entrepreneurial instincts to ship reliable, maintainable infrastructure. An understated strength is his history of forming cross-functional expert committees and formalizing hiring, budgeting, and motivation systems that scale engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
package-management10
cmake10
package-manager-tool10
build-automation10
vcpkg10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
scripting9
lib9
package9
packager9
shell9
script9
sh9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 76 commits, 86 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yauheni primarily contributed to the `microsoft/vcpkg` repository by updating the SObjectizer package. These updates involved modifying `portfile.cmake` files to incorporate new versions and download URLs. Additionally, the user appears to have experience with build and release processes by implementing fixes and updates to the bootstrapping scripts, including downloading and extracting tools like cmake and ninja. These tasks indicate involvement in package management and build automation.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
Stiffstream/json_dto
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
A small header-only library for converting data between json representation and c++ structs
Contributions:16 releases, 1 review, 138 commits in 4 years 6 months
json-representationrepresentationcppjsonpathheader
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