Andrei Kazakou
Solution Architect II at EPAM Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAndrei Kazakou is a Solution Architect with 13 years of experience building and leading distributed engineering teams and designing high-throughput systems that have served tens of millions of users. He blends hands-on full‑stack development (Node.js, TypeScript, React) with systems architecture for services handling up to 35k RPS and 250k messages/sec, optimizing data pipelines that generate terabytes daily. At EPAM and Pluto TV he’s bridged business and engineering to deliver ad-tech and payment solutions across global teams, reducing maintenance cost through pragmatic architecture and transparency. An active open-source contributor, he improved type safety and testing in the popular fastest-validator library, showing attention to correctness as well as performance. Based in Austin, he brings a rare mix of deep system-design expertise, operational experience, and a willingness to dive into code to solve thorny production problems.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Student, Applied Mathematics, Student, Applied Mathematics at Gomel State University named Francisco Skorinastudent, Automatic data processing systems, student, Automatic data processing systems at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Английский, Русский, Белорусский, Украинский, Польский
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Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
schema-validation10
typescript-types10
validators9
schema9
hapi6
datetime6
nodejs6
iso6
structural-typing6
server6
mysql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
icebob/fastest-validator
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
:zap: The fastest JS validator library for NodeJS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 29 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrei's commits focused on enhancing the TypeScript definitions and conducting thorough testing of the `fastest-validator` library. They adapted existing unit tests to TypeScript, ensuring compatibility. Furthermore, they fixed issues related to type casting in various rules, including `uuid` and `string`, as well as addressing a bug in the boolean sanitize unit test, demonstrating a commitment to quality and correctness. These contributions significantly improved the library's reliability and type safety.
validationjavascriptfastestschema-validationvalidator
akazakou/hapi-backend-skeleton
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Simple backend skeleton with TypeScript + Hapi.js + Mongoose + Mocha
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 7 months
mongoose-jshapiboilerplateskeletonhapi-typescript
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