Gellért Hegyi
Member Of Engineering Poolside at poolside
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolGellért Hegyi is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently a Member of Engineering at poolside and an official maintainer of Electron at GitHub. He blends front-end expertise (React, Angular) and Node.js back ends with low-level cross-platform work—having implemented features like offscreen rendering and macOS window management in Electron. His background spans full-stack roles and engineering management (Miro), plus hands-on contributions to native build tooling such as cmake-js, demonstrating comfort with CMake and native addons. Based in the Zürich area and armed with a Master's in Computer Science, he actively ships open-source solutions and occasionally bridges desktop internals with mobile (Objective-C/Swift) development.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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Github Skills (17)
api-doc10
javascript10
node-js10
electron10
build-system10
cmake10
browser10
api10
javascripts10
web-browser10
web-development10
c-language9
c-programming-language9
macos8
html8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
electron/electron
Aug 2015 - Jul 2022
:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 106 commits, 26 PRs in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gellért contributed to the Electron framework, demonstrating proficiency in both browser and renderer processes. Their primary focus was on implementing new APIs and features, such as `SetOffscreenRender`, and improving the existing codebase related to window management and OS-specific functionalities (e.g., macOS). The user addressed identified issues by providing necessary fixes and ensured the framework's stability by making required corrections.
jsc-plus-plusdesktop-appscssjavascript
cmake-js/cmake-js
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
CMake.js - a Node.js native addon build tool
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Gellért primarily focused on enhancing the `cmake-js` build tool, specifically by introducing and refining options for custom configurations. The user modified the core CMake build system, including adding functionality to handle custom build options. They also updated the process of how custom options get passed to the CMake configure command. Further improvements were made by allowing the user to silence CMake output and providing an option to specify an output directory.
cppcmakecmake-jsnode-jsn-api
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