Egor Zaitsev
Senior Software Engineer at Taxwire.com
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolEgor Zaitsev is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building scalable web products and leading cross-functional teams from Lisbon. He specializes in modern JavaScript/TypeScript frontends (React, SSR, Redux) and Node.js backends, with a strong emphasis on code quality, testing (Jest, Puppeteer) and gradual, safe refactoring. As a founding engineer at Collider he single-handedly shipped two product interfaces and implemented privacy-first social and RAG-powered search experiences, and at On Deck he led a design system and AI-powered recommendation surfaces used by 15,000+ fellows. He is a self-taught generalist comfortable across Linux, CI/CD, packaging and databases (MySQL, Mongo, Redis, ElasticSearch) and contributes to Ansible modules for MikroTik RouterOS, improving network automation in a widely-used open-source project. Egor combines product-focused engineering with practical management skills—hiring, mentoring and running agile rituals—and has a track record of turning complex datasets into intuitive user workflows.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Engineering Technology General, Master of Engineering - MEng Engineering Technology General at Tula State University
English, German, Russian, Portuguese
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Github Skills (15)
routeros10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
python10
ansible10
unit-test9
yaml8
git7
command-line-interface6
msword6
javascript6
interop6
cocoa6
command-prompt6
fest4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 76 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Egor primarily contributed to the development of Ansible modules for MikroTik RouterOS devices. Their work involved implementing new modules, specifically for managing RouterOS, along with adding features like fact gathering. They also addressed various bug fixes, reviewed code changes, and wrote unit tests to ensure module reliability. Additionally, the user incorporated changes to support spaces in device identities and address issues related to interface counts in facts, thereby enhancing the functionality and robustness of the Ansible modules.
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
heuels/ansible
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications — automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/
Contributions:1 PR, 53 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 10 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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