Ansar Smagul
Founder Lead Engineer at Zen Privacy
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Summary
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Top SchoolAnsar Smagul is a founder and lead engineer with five years of hands-on experience building cloud-native and full-stack software from Kazakhstan. After leading technical delivery at PS Cloud Services, he launched Zen Privacy to focus on privacy-first solutions, blending product vision with implementation. His background in mathematics from The Open University informs a pragmatic, analytical approach to system design and security trade-offs. Known on GitHub as a "walking entropy generator," he brings curiosity and an experimental mindset to engineering problems. Comfortable moving between code, architecture, and team leadership, he excels at turning complex requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at The Open UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools
Github Skills (44)
windows10
linux10
adblock10
desktop-application10
privacy10
go10
macos10
javascript9
golang9
svelte9
react9
angular9
backend9
backend-framework8
complexity8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
anfragment/zen
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Simple, free and efficient ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, macOS and Linux
Contributions:4 releases, 40 reviews, 161 PRs in 1 year 9 months
adblockadblockerdesktop-appgogui
anfragment/.emacs.d
Aug 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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