Eugene Zaikonnikov
Chief Technology Officer at Norphonic
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolEugene Zaikonnikov is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Bergen, Norway, with 13 years of experience building and guiding software teams. He combines executive-level product and engineering oversight at Norphonic with hands-on systems work, evidenced by substantive contributions to the Mezzano operating system written in Common Lisp. His open-source work spans UI and low-level system features—keyboard layouts, window management, media playback and core library fixes—showing comfort across both user-facing and system internals. Trained as a software engineer at Belaruski Dzjaržauny Universitet, he brings deep systems thinking and long-term technical stewardship to product development. Colleagues know him as an “Empty Queue” engineer—suggesting a pragmatic, backlog-driven approach to keeping projects lean and shipping. He is particularly adept at bridging legacy system constraints with modern user interface and multimedia needs.
13 years of coding experience
Software Engineer, Software Engineer at Belaruski Dzjaržauny Universitet Informatyki i Radyjoelektroniki
English, Norwegian, Russian, Russian
Github Skills (19)
keyboard-input10
keyboard-events10
os-development10
keyboard10
front-end-development10
common-lisp10
keyboard-hooks10
operating-system10
imageio9
image9
system-programming9
video-player9
playback9
imagehandler9
image-management9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
froggey/Mezzano
Mar 2016 - May 2017
An operating system written in Common Lisp
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Eugene primarily focused on developing and enhancing the user interface and system-level functionalities within the Mezzano operating system. They implemented keyboard layout support, including 2nd-level shifts and extended layouts for various languages. Additionally, the user addressed bugs in core system libraries and contributed to the media player component, integrating cl-video for video playback and handling audio stream conversions. They worked on various components of the operating system's GUI, including keyboard input, image handling, and window management.
operating-systemoperatinglispcommon-lisp
varjagg/cl-pjsip
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:267 commits, 98 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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