Anton Karamanov is a pragmatic Staff Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years building resilient backend systems and driving cross-team core infrastructure at Miro. He has deep experience in distributed and authorization systems, recently leading an overhaul of Miro’s auth platform and now focusing on licensing. A longtime Akka contributor, Anton improved actor-model async patterns by implementing PromiseRef/FutureRef and enhancing AskSupport, reflecting his knack for practical improvements to widely used open-source tooling. His background includes technical leadership at Otravo and multi-year engineering at Yandex, giving him a strong track record in production-grade, scalable services. Off-hours he dubs himself a "real programmer, fake musician," hinting at a dry sense of humor behind a methodical engineering style.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Informational Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Informational Technology, Information Technology at Московский Государственный Институт Радиотехники, Электроники и Автоматики (Технический Университет) (МИРЭА)
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 59 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Anton contributed to the Akka project, focusing on improving the actor system's core functionalities. Their work includes implementing `PromiseRef` and `FutureRef` as alternatives to the ask pattern, which enhances asynchronous communication within the actor model. Additionally, the user modified the `AskSupport` to offer a variant of the `ask` method, increasing flexibility. These changes improved the core features and capabilities of the Akka framework.
Contributions:72 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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