Alexey Kouzmitchev
Information Security Advisor, Manager Infrastructure Services
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Kouzmitchev is an Information Security Advisor and Infrastructure Services manager with over 30 years of hands-on experience across global enterprises, and a decade-plus focused on large-scale network and security architecture. He designs, implements and operates resilient, follow-the-sun security and VPN infrastructures for multinational accounts, having driven major migrations, vendor evaluations and a network redesign that saved $850,000. Comfortable from low-level scripting and log-analysis tools (Shell, AWK, Python) to enterprise firewalls (CheckPoint, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Juniper) and monitoring (Zabbix), he combines deep troubleshooting and escalation expertise with project leadership. Alexey’s open-source work includes backend fixes and tooling for firewall and VPN policy automation and a PHP AIML chatbot contribution, reflecting a practical engineering bent beyond pure operations. Known for splitting and merging corporate networks without outages and reducing massive rule sets by 85%, he brings both operational rigor and a knack for automating complex, error-prone tasks. Based in the Randstad, he pairs technical depth with decades of teaching and vendor liaison experience that helps translate architecture into reliable, auditable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Radio-Engineering, MS, Radio-Engineering at Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation - Technical University
English, Russian, Dutch, German
Github Skills (9)
regular-expression10
debug10
php10
backend10
aiml10
back-end-development10
mysql10
session-management8
git4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Program-O/Program-O
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
PHP MySQL AIML Chatbot - One click installation. Fully loaded admin area to admin your chatbot. Set up multiple chatbots. Foreign language support. XML/JSON responses or just plain HTML. Massive community of users. Twitter Plugins and lots and lots more. Please feel free to fork the DEV branch and contribute. :)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 10 PRs, 1 push in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to the PHP backend of the chatbot. Their commits focused on fixing bugs, such as handling exceptions and correcting variable types. They also modified the code to improve functionality, like adding "ignore case" to regular expressions for topic matching and disabling a section related to srai_lookup. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to session management, commenting out a potentially problematic function.
aimlinstallationjson-responsesaiml-chatbotforeign
AlekzNet/CheckPoint-Firewall-toolkit
Oct 2018 - May 2021
Various tools to work with CheckPoint firewall: log analysis, automatic policy generation, PBR rules creation, configuration parsers
Contributions:80 commits, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 years 7 months
policyparsersipspbrcheckpoint-firewall
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