Yuri Timenkov
Something With Software And Engineering at Toca Boca
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolYuri Timenkov is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, production-grade systems across FinTech, real-time communications, and consumer software. He has driven low-latency, million-message-per-second message buses and CI-driven cloud migrations at Nasdaq, and later contributed product-focused engineering at Skype and Toca Boca. Comfortable both leading teams and diving into code, he has practical strengths in backend engineering, metadata handling, and media processing—evidenced by open-source contributions to the Gerbera UPnP media server improving subtitle handling and thumbnail caching. Yuri combines systems-level rigor from MIPT with hands-on optimization skills, refactoring code to remove undefined behavior and hardening stability in complex modules. Based in Stockholm, he brings a pragmatic blend of performance engineering and product-minded craftsmanship that surfaces in both proprietary and open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Swedish, Russian
Github Skills (11)
data-handling10
upnp10
c-language10
metadata10
cprogramming-language10
meta10
ffmpeg9
dlna9
cplus9
cpp9
cmake8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
gerbera/gerbera
Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
UPnP Media Server for 2025: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 18 PRs, 180 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yuri's primary contribution involves enhancing the Gerbera UPnP media server's functionality. They implemented features for subtitle handling, ensuring compatibility with various media players by providing full URL paths. Further work included refactoring code to remove warnings and fix undefined behavior, particularly within the metadata handling modules, improving code stability. The user also refactored and optimized the thumbnail caching process within the ffmpeg handler.
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ytimenkov/conan-docs
Apr 2018 - Aug 2021
Conan.io documentation at Read the Docs
Contributions:1 release, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
docstringsconan-ioconanread-the-docs
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