Askar Akhmerov
Senior Engineering Manager - Platform
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAskar Akhmerov is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling platform teams, currently serving as Senior Engineering Manager - Platform at Forto in Berlin. He blends hands-on backend and security engineering expertise—highlighted by contributions to the widely used jsoup Java HTML parser around SSL/socket handling—with product ownership and platform strategy roles. His career trajectory spans core development at Camunda, progressive technical leadership at smava, and product-focused platform roles that bridge engineering and business outcomes. Known for turning security-sensitive network features into production-ready code, he excels at aligning developer experience, reliability, and operational security. Askar brings a pragmatic, technical-product mindset informed by a formal computer science background from Kazan State University. He is particularly effective at translating low-level systems concerns into platform roadmaps that enable fast, safe shipping.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Казанский государственный университет им. В.И. Ульянова-Ленина
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
ssl10
jsoup10
it-security10
http10
networking10
java10
security10
javas10
gatling6
load-testing6
multi-tenant6
camunda6
bpmn6
spring6
scala6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jhy/jsoup
Jul 2013 - Oct 2014
jsoup: the Java HTML parser, built for HTML editing, cleaning, scraping, and XSS safety.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:13 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Askar primarily focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the jsoup library. Their main contribution involved adding support for disabling SSL certificate checks for insecure connections. They implemented methods and classes to manage and initialize SSL socket factories. Additionally, the user made changes to the core `HttpConnection` class and the `Connection` interface, demonstrating expertise in network and security-related aspects of the library.
html-parserjavajsoupxssdom
aakhmerov/DOH2015
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:51 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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