Alexey Miroshkin
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Miroshkin is an engineering manager and polyglot systems developer with 11 years' experience building distributed systems, microservices and cryptocurrency infrastructure, now focused on Rust. He combines hands-on backend and security work (notably as author of klar, a Clair + Docker registry scanner) with people management and architecture for resilient microservice platforms. A long-time open-source contributor and ex-Bosh/Cloud Foundry core team member, he co-maintains a Go Kafka driver and has contributed to Prometheus and OpenStack. His crypto work includes refactoring and GPU plugin development for the MimbleWimble Grin miner, showing both low-level performance tuning and protocol-level robustness. Based in Berlin, he brings a rare mix of operational experience, multi-language fluency from C through Rust, and practical security-minded engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (21)
opencl10
docker10
vulnerability-scanners10
docker-image10
plugin-development10
gpu-programming10
dockers10
cryptocurrency10
security10
go10
cryptography10
blockchain10
error-handling10
rust10
scanning10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
optiopay/klar
Aug 2016 - Apr 2019
Integration of Clair and Docker Registry
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:19 releases, 45 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the `klar` project, which integrates Clair with Docker registries. Their contributions include fixing issues related to token handling for image pulls, and addressing problems with scanning public images. They also implemented full support for registry v2 and Clair v2, involving significant refactoring and the addition of new features such as tracing.
clairsecurity-auditdocker-imageseverity-vulnerabilitiessecurity
mimblewimble/grin
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Minimal implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 commits, 303 PRs, 118 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexey contributed to the MimbleWimble Grin implementation by addressing issues related to network conditions, orphaning and block processing. They modified the `adapters.rs` file to improve block hydration and request full blocks when necessary. The user also added logging and error handling, logging peer ban reasons and handling errors in wallet and transaction processes. They also updated limits of transactions and improved timestamp handling in block creation.
cryptographyrustprotocolmimblewimblecryptocurrency
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