Anatol Belski
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolAnatol Belski is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience, currently driving backend and system-level work at Microsoft from the Greater Munich area. He brings deep expertise in PHP internals, extensions and cross-platform compatibility—evident from contributions to high-profile projects like php.net, phpredis, php-amqp and APCu—while also tackling low-level virtualization and memory issues in cloud-hypervisor. His background blends formal informatics training with early chemistry studies, and certifications in Zend, MySQL and Linux underscore a pragmatic, standards-minded approach. Known for fixing portability, concurrency and security bugs, he thrives on making legacy systems robust and modern platforms interoperable across Windows and Unix environments.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Münchentechnical diploma, Fachabitur, technical diploma, Fachabitur at Studienkolleg MünchenChemistry, Chemistry at Dnipropetrovsk University for Chemistry
English, German, Russian, French
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Github Skills (49)
git10
kvm10
concurrent10
multiplatform10
back-end-development10
redis10
mysql10
amqp10
architecture10
windows10
databases10
build-system10
cmake10
cross-platform10
c1110
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FriendsOfPHP/pickle
Jul 2014 - Feb 2016
PHP Extension installer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:245 commits, 102 pushes, 22 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Anatol primarily focused on refactoring build-related classes within the PHP extension installer project. Their work included restructuring build source files and implementing Windows-specific build processes, including PHP SDK integration and environment setup. The user also addressed issues related to configuring build options and made improvements to the build process, such as the addition of the `--with-configure-options` feature. Furthermore, the user contributed to the dependency management of extension binaries.
phpinstallerphp-extension
php/web-php
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
The www.php.net site
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Anatol's commits primarily focus on the development and maintenance of the PHP web application, specifically the www.php.net website. Their contributions include adding and updating PHP version information within the site's code, modifying downloads and changelog pages to reflect the release of PHP 7.0 and subsequent updates, and converting legacy NEWS entries into a changelog format. They also introduced new functions, like IPV6_V6ONLY to stream contexts and fixed several security vulnerabilities and various core, intl, and standard features of the website.
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