Ivan Begtin
Founder at APICrafter, NGO "Informational Culture" infoculture , Open Data Armenia, OKFN Russia
Yerevan, Armenia
Summary
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RockstarIvan Begtin is a founder and CTO with 13 years’ experience building data platforms, open data initiatives, and government information systems, currently leading Dateno, a next‑gen dataset search engine. He combines hands‑on engineering, system architecture and project management with deep domain expertise in financial and procurement data and open government transparency. Creator of APICrafter, Open Data Armenia and several civic tech projects, he has a track record of turning public datasets into reusable, auditable services. Based in Yerevan, he champions Plain Language, Digital Preservation and Open Data across Russia, the ex‑USSR and beyond. Comfortable at the intersection of policy and code, he blends product-focused pragmatism with advocacy for more accountable, machine‑readable government information.
13 years of coding experience
English, Russian, Spanish, Armenian, Polish, Latin
Stackoverflow
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6kreached
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Github Skills (200)
pii10
python10
abstract-syntax-tree10
readability10
metadata10
internet10
crawler10
cyrillic10
satellite10
monitoring10
open-government10
data-journalism10
data-export10
languagetool10
zulip10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
infoculture/awesome-openbudget
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
apicrafter/metacrafter-registry
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 68 commits, 58 pushes in 9 months
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