Emil Koutanov
Platform Architect
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Koutanov is a Platform Architect with nearly two decades of experience designing high-performance, event-driven and cloud-native systems for betting, telecom and retail domains. He currently shapes architecture and technology strategy at Kindred Group, coaching engineering teams and aligning microservices and streaming architectures to business goals. His career includes migrating mission-critical platforms to AWS, enabling 80k+ bets/sec routing at Tote-X and leading William Hill’s shift from monolith to resilient, event-driven services. An active open-source maintainer—creator of Kafdrop with over 10M Docker pulls—and author of Effective Kafka, he blends hands-on backend craftsmanship with strategic leadership. Entrepreneurial by background, he’s built and sold products and applied novel signal-processing and persistence techniques, making him particularly adept at solving high-throughput, low-latency problems under regulatory constraints.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE DipEngPrac, Software Engineering, Hons, Medal, BE DipEngPrac, Software Engineering, Hons, Medal at University of Technology, SydneyRyde College
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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apache-kafka
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Github Skills (18)
debugging10
debug10
kafka10
java10
javas10
refactor9
spring-boot9
apache-kafka9
refactoring9
confluent-platform6
wan6
mockito6
cluster-computing6
spring-kafka-test6
priority-queue6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
obsidiandynamics/kafdrop
May 2019 - Jan 2022
Kafka Web UI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 releases, 319 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Emil primarily contributed to bug fixes, code improvements, and refactoring efforts within the Kafdrop project. Their work includes addressing build issues, resolving null pointer exceptions, and implementing division-by-zero guards. Additionally, the user made stylistic changes, increased fetch timeouts, and improved code formatting. Their work appears to focus on enhancing the reliability and maintainability of the Kafka Web UI's backend components.
event-streamingconsumer-groupkafka-uizookeeperevent-sourcing
obsidiandynamics/stride-rs
Sep 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:139 commits, 1 branch in 1 year
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