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Andrew Bulhak

Over 17 months, contributed to the mullvad/mullvadvpn-app repository by delivering 43 features and resolving critical bugs across networking, UI, and platform integration. Developed robust VPN features such as obfuscation controls, multihop routing, and address caching, using Swift, Rust, and SwiftUI to ensure cross-platform reliability and maintainability. Refactored core networking and caching architectures, modernized API and FFI integrations, and improved accessibility, localization, and test coverage. Enhanced user experience through UI polish, dynamic state management, and secure data persistence. The work emphasized modular design, type safety, and code quality, enabling faster iteration, safer upgrades, and a more scalable codebase.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

88%Features

Repository Contributions

139Total
Bugs
6
Commits
139
Features
43
Lines of code
14,363
Activity Months17

Work History

March 2026

8 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026 monthly summary for mullvad/mullvadvpn-app: Delivered robust Multihop Routing Enhancements with granular state controls and a tristate UI, refactored relay selection, and migration-ready architecture. The work improves user control, reduces configuration confusion, and strengthens upgrade safety. Updated UI tests and introduced a Smart Routing indicator to align visuals with feature expectations, contributing to higher user satisfaction and lower support inquiries.

February 2026

22 Commits • 3 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly highlights for mullvadvpn-app (mullvad/mullvadvpn-app). The primary focus was migrating the AddressCache from a legacy approach to a runtime-backed AddressCache, resulting in a simplified, more reliable caching lifecycle across the app, daemons, and API integrations. This included removing outdated AddressCache references, adjusting trait bounds, and integrating with the runtime-backed cache via new FFI calls and API changes. Concurrently, the team tightened safety and correctness in Rust through expanded safety annotations, added access method logging, and improved test reliability. Minor code quality improvements were performed via formatting cleanup and safety-related fixes. Additionally, targeted bug fixes improved runtime stability and maintainability. Key architecture/implementation changes: - AddressCache lifecycle overhaul: replaced legacy AddressCache usage with runtime-backed implementation; removed redundant references; adjusted trait bounds and daemon interactions; ensured AddressCache is non-dynamic backing as recommended. - FFI and API integration: introduced mullvad_api_update_address_cache FFI function for iOS Rust code and migrated Endpoints updates through Rust API rather than local trackers. - Runtime safety and observability: added safety annotations to unsafe Rust functions, expanded safety guarantees, and introduced access method logging; enhanced safety-related comments and formatting. - Testing and stability: MullvadRustRuntimeTests fixed to improve reliability; safety comments and typo fixes across safety annotations; minor formatting improvements for consistency. - Code quality: general code formatting cleanup to improve readability and maintainability.

January 2026

5 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary for mullvad/mullvadvpn-app focused on delivering a robust address caching architecture and integrating it into the runtime across platforms, with emphasis on performance, resilience, and code quality. Key outcomes include a dynamic cache backing, a new Runtime::with_cache_backing() constructor, iOS Runtime integration for address caching, and a graceful fallback path for missing cached addresses, complemented by minor formatting improvements and overall code hygiene.

December 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025: Delivered foundational caching architecture enhancements and UI clarity improvements in mullvadvpn-app, aligning with reliability and usability goals. Implemented a pluggable AddressCache backing that enables file-based persistence and platform-specific IOS backing, and refined the location selection header to show counts and conditionally display the subtitle, improving decision speed for users.

November 2025

10 Commits • 3 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 for mullvadvpn-app: Implemented Networking Architecture Modernization and Proxy/Transport Cleanup, added Keychain-based address cache persistence via FFI, and performed code quality/maintenance improvements. These changes reduce technical debt, improve testability, security, and reliability, and set the foundation for faster network enhancements.

October 2025

7 Commits • 2 Features

Oct 1, 2025

Month 2025-10 — Mullvadvpn-app delivered two key features centered on user experience and secure lifecycle management, delivering concrete business value through safer account handling, improved UI clarity, and stronger maintainability. Key work reduced risk of data loss, enhanced visual hierarchy in the ConnectionView, and tightened token management around account setup/deletion. Overall impact includes improved user experience, reduced support risk, and a more robust codebase.

September 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025: Delivered UI layout refinements and typography fixes in mullvadvpn-app to align with the new design spec, stabilized activity indicator behavior across layouts, and improved onboarding consistency. These changes enhance first-run usability, visual consistency, and status feedback reliability, supporting higher user satisfaction and reduced onboarding friction.

August 2025

6 Commits • 4 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 (2025-08) performance summary for mullvadvpn-app: Architectural consolidation of access methods, UI improvements, and targeted code-quality enhancements delivered to improve maintainability, reliability, and user experience. The work enables centralized updates, clearer configuration, and smoother user interactions, while laying groundwork for scalable future features.

July 2025

5 Commits • 3 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 — Mullvadvpn-app: Strengthened Rust-Swift interop, improved UI, and tightened API robustness. Key features delivered include: 1) Rust-Swift interop and access-method synchronization with memory-management refinements for callbacks and a notification system when access methods change (commits: 6210557bbb92934be1e0697a2129642ef95c5dd3; f73c97b7d39c054d7c00460fe18870212865f453; 63cb6f5a0b27d6d54769e8afb98ed291254d1123); 2) Settings UI improvement: reduced vertical spacing above the page indicator for better multi-page layout (commit adcf1e624c4f07d8b81e758f84c718b5b14e4b14); 3) API context error handling and code organization: migrated error handling to Swift's Error enum and reorganized PersistentProxyConfiguration for better structure (commit ab927b72ac7337ccc048057954bb2858370a907f). Major bugs fixed include corrected callback pointer passing and saving of methods, memory/notification handling improvements for access method changes, and removal of redundant Sync conformance for ForeignPtr. Overall impact: improved reliability, reduced memory risk, and smoother cross-language flows, enabling faster iteration and a better user experience. Technologies demonstrated: Rust-Swift interop, memory management for callbacks, idiomatic Swift error handling, UI layout tuning, and project-wide code organization.

June 2025

4 Commits • 2 Features

Jun 1, 2025

Month: 2025-06 Concise monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments for mullvad/mullvadvpn-app. 1) Key features delivered: - Access method names localization: Implemented UI-wide localization of display names for access methods (Direct, Mullvad bridges, Encrypted DNS proxy) and API method names. This includes moving localization logic to the UI layer (NSLocalizedString) and clarifying behavior for persisted names at creation time. - Commits: dfcd758715f13421d94588974639cb81dd3ea2d5; 4e875e17c928f28a88c783a0d7b983c5d9a0c1dc; 7ca73df4050050573be2ad1d1398dbc1cbb96aa4 - ServerRelay feature enhancements: Introduced new QUIC and Masque fields in the ServerRelay model and added a nested Features structure. Refactored DAITA flag logic into Features, and updated mock data and tests to support the new fields. - Commit: 6abe9daec6327e0961fc3f7291f51a4ba6bf22a5 2) Major bugs fixed: - No explicit major bug fixes documented this month. 3) Overall impact and accomplishments: - Established a robust localization approach and UI-layer ownership for method names, enabling multi-language support and clearer user-facing translations. - Expanded ServerRelay data model to support future feature flags and protocol enhancements (QUIC/Masque), setting the stage for faster feature rollout and easier testing. - Improved testability and regression safety by updating mocks and tests to align with the new data structures. 4) Technologies/skills demonstrated: - iOS/macOS localization patterns (NSLocalizedString), UI-layer localization strategy, and creation-time persistence semantics. - Data model evolution with nested Features structures and protocol-related feature flags. - Test-driven approach with mocks updated to reflect structural changes, improving CI reliability. Business value: - Reduced localization maintenance cost, accelerated multi-language support, and prepared the codebase for upcoming protocol enhancements, enabling broader market reach and quicker feature delivery.

May 2025

8 Commits • 3 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary for mullvad/mullvadvpn-app focusing on delivering robust network features, UI polish, and CI reliability improvements that collectively increase connectivity reliability, user satisfaction, and developer velocity.

April 2025

11 Commits • 4 Features

Apr 1, 2025

Monthly summary for 2025-04 focusing on Mullvad Mullvadvpn app development. Delivered significant enhancements to obfuscation and QUIC support, improved tunnel-state visibility, and polished UI, while strengthening build interoperability. These efforts improved security resilience, user experience, and developer efficiency, enabling faster delivery of robust features in future cycles.

March 2025

3 Commits • 3 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 – Mullvadvpn-app: Implemented three substantive UI/asset and state-management improvements that enhance scalability, clarity, and feature discoverability. No explicit bugs fixed in this scope. Key changes include a reusable SVG-based Vector Image Asset System with centralized image access, decoupled DNS UI visibility from content blockers, and dynamic Multihop feature visibility driven by user settings or tunnel state. These efforts reduce asset maintenance, simplify UI state management, and lay groundwork for future UI refreshes and scalability.

February 2025

12 Commits • 3 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 for mullvad/mullvadvpn-app focused on stabilizing WireGuard integration and delivering UI refinements with stronger CI/CD reliability. Key changes include migrating WireGuard integration from a remote package to a submodule (wireguard-apple), updating CI/CD workflows to checkout the submodule consistently, and enhancing the iOS UI/UX for VPN settings. Also updated the DAITA feature text to front-load warnings and refined markdown rendering for better visibility. These efforts improve maintainability, build reliability, and user clarity, enabling faster future iterations and a cleaner onboarding experience for users.

January 2025

5 Commits • 2 Features

Jan 1, 2025

Month: 2025-01 — Mullvad Mullvadvpn-app performance and reliability improvements focused on connection management UX, data integrity, and UI polish. Key features delivered: - Connection Management Improvements: refactored ConnectionView into modular components, enhanced relay selection display, and introduced LocationIdentifier for relay locations to improve data integrity. Commits illustrating the work: 3b90cc8957ac8fc749dafac2f3338e3d8dcda0cd (Split ConnectionView, improve previews, attempt animation); 2a17914bf9db3ffd41badc112aafcfa2c1f7d98e (Put custom list name or (unfmtd) location name into connect button); 4fb7eef8b864455c595378230e3490d1fd490256 (Change AnyRelay Location from a String to a custom type). - UI Notification Bar Consistency: removed system notification bar on relevant screens to reduce UI noise and improve user focus. Commits: 60f11bba60e82aa658c734dc070092e7d338a788 (Configure device management screen to hide notification bar); 0fdc5eca0bc0f2803b8833b7bbb1f3791be6915a (Hide notification bar in out of time screen as well). Major bugs fixed: - UI overlay issues and inconsistent system bar behavior addressed by hiding the system notification bar on DeviceManagementViewController and OutOfTime screens, improving screen focus and predictability of UI state. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Substantial improvement to user experience during connection setup with modular, maintainable UI components and more reliable relay location handling. - Clear business value from reduced UI noise, consistent screens, and safer data handling for relay locations, enabling faster iteration and easier onboarding for new engineers. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - iOS UI architecture and componentization (Swift/Storyboard or SwiftUI implied), modular refactoring of ConnectionView, data modeling enhancements with LocationIdentifier, and type-safe relocation data for AnyRelay. - End-to-end traceability through commit messages, enabling easier code reviews and audits.

December 2024

10 Commits • 2 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 monthly summary for mullvadvpn-app focused on accessibility, UI reliability, and testing improvements. Delivered a major Accessibility Identifier System Overhaul with port selector accessibility improvements, and updated WireGuard obfuscation UI alongside expanded test coverage. These changes enhance usability, reduce maintenance risk, and strengthen regression safety in preparation for broader user adoption.

November 2024

14 Commits • 3 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024 (mullvad/mullvadvpn-app): Delivered user-facing obfuscation controls and stability improvements that strengthen security posture and reduce maintenance risk. Implemented UDP-over-TCP obfuscation settings with a new SwiftUI UI for port selection, mutable settings state, a dedicated ViewModel, and integration into the VPN settings flow. Renamed the setting to udpOverTcp, removed legacy UDP port UI, and ensured coherence with the overall settings architecture. Added Shadowsocks obfuscation settings with its own UI and ViewModel, including automatic vs. custom port selection with validation. Fixed a critical robustness bug in SingleChoiceList to preserve user input when clearing a custom value. Refactored localization handling for SingleChoiceList to client-side, enabling better localization flexibility. Performed UI polish and code quality improvements including SwiftLint directive adjustments and re-enablement of checks to raise maintainability and developer velocity. These efforts collectively improve user control over obfuscation features, reduce risk in configuration flows, and demonstrate strong SwiftUI, MVVM, and lint discipline.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness92.6%
Maintainability91.2%
Architecture89.4%
Performance88.2%
AI Usage21.4%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashCGitMarkdownObjective-CRustShellSwiftTOMLXML

Technical Skills

API DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAPI developmentAPI integrationAccessibilityAsset ManagementAsynchronous ProgrammingAuto LayoutBuild AutomationBuild System ConfigurationC InteroperabilityC/C++ InteroperabilityCI/CDCallback Mechanisms

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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mullvad/mullvadvpn-app

Nov 2024 Mar 2026
17 Months active

Languages Used

SwiftBashGitMarkdownObjective-CShellYAMLXML

Technical Skills

Code LintingCode RenamingMVVMMobile DevelopmentObservableObjectRefactoring