Yauheni Khnykin
Senior Principal Software Engineer at HERE Technologies
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYauheni Khnykin is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years of experience building cross-platform desktop and embedded systems. He excels in C++ architecture and cross-language bindings (C++, Java, Swift, Flutter), threading and lock-free algorithms, and has repeatedly designed modular project structures from language-level APIs to build scripts and CI integration. At HERE Technologies he progressed from Senior Engineer to Senior Principal, guiding small teams and owning architecture decisions for large, Chromium-scale codebases. He also contributed test infrastructure fixes to the widely used CMake project, improving Xcode build reliability on Apple platforms. Known for diagnosing tooling and integration issues end-to-end, he combines hands-on coding with pragmatic infrastructure and quality tooling improvements. Yauheni aims to evolve into a software architect supporting mid-to-large teams and product-level decisions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist mathematics programming, Specialist mathematics programming at Belarusian State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (7)
xcode10
cmake10
testing10
swift9
ios8
macos8
build-automation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/CMake
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Yauheni primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure for the CMake project, specifically related to the Xcode generator. Their work included fixing issues related to the "new build system" in Xcode and enhancing the test suite to cover various scenarios like output directory selection for test bundles. These additions addressed previously reported problems and improved the reliability of the build process on Apple platforms. The user's modifications involved adjusting build configurations and adding new test cases to cover the Xcode-specific aspects of the CMake build system.
cppcmakeupstream
Hsilgos/nppsaveasadmin
Sep 2012 - Feb 2021
Plugin for notepad++ to save as administrator. "Offical" fork of https://sourceforge.net/projects/nppsaveasadmin/
Contributions:14 releases, 48 commits, 51 PRs in 8 years 6 months
administratorsourceforgepluginnotepad
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