Anton Andersen
Senior Software Engineer at Kuvelli LTD
Paphos Municipality, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Andersen is a Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years building high-throughput, fault-tolerant backend systems and leading engineering teams across startups and large product companies. He specializes in Go and distributed architectures—having pushed production-grade optimizations that enabled a trading system to process 30k messages/sec and contributed performance fixes to the Go compiler itself. At VK and Kuvelli he designed scalable, highly available services and introduced canary deployments, DB horizontal-scaling and observability improvements for multi-million-user systems. He is an active open-source contributor to major projects like Yii2 and Codeception, with deep experience in test automation and improving CI/CD and migration testing. With an academic background in mathematics and published research, Anton blends rigorous theoretical thinking with pragmatic engineering to deliver measurable performance and reliability gains. Based in Cyprus, he also brings hands-on DevOps and systems experience across Postgres, RocksDB, ClickHouse and Kubernetes.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Mathematics and Computer Science, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Mathematics and Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State University
English, French, Russian, Greek
Github Skills (13)
yii10
unit-testing10
application-framework10
app-framework10
codeception10
web-framework10
php-framework10
php10
unit-test10
test-automation10
testing10
integration-testing9
project-template8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Yii 2.0 Advanced Application Template
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 19 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure of the Yii2 advanced application template. Their work focused on updating and configuring Codeception test suites, including functional and acceptance tests. This involved modifying test configurations, adjusting bootstrap files to handle different environments, and providing fixtures to manipulate test data. The contributions improved the testability and maintainability of the application's testing suite.
yiiyii2
yiisoft/yii2
Aug 2014 - Jul 2015
Yii 2: The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 28 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure and test coverage within the Yii2 framework. They added namespaces to the tests, which likely improves code organization and test execution. They also made changes to the test setup and configuration files, including adjusting paths and server names for multi-host testing and making unit tests cleanup a DB after finish, enhancing the reliability of the tests.
php-frameworkyiiphpyii2framework
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