Konstantin Sivakov
Backend Engineer at MindsDB
Bitola, Pelagonia, North Macedonia
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Top SchoolKonstantin Sivakov is a backend engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and integrating data-driven systems, currently contributing to MindsDB and maintaining open-source work through datHere. He has deep expertise in Python and Java ecosystems and a long history with CKAN, contributing core integrations and handlers that bridge large-scale data portals with AI query engines. His background spans technical lead roles and senior engineering positions where he delivered production services using Postgres, Solr, Redis, Docker and orchestration tools. Konstantin’s work on MindsDB’s CKAN integration and prior CKAN core contributions demonstrate a focus on making federated data discoverable and queryable by AI systems. Based in Bitola, North Macedonia, he combines enterprise-grade discipline from telecom and government projects with startup-style rapid iteration. Colleagues know him for tenacious debugging and a pragmatic approach to integrating legacy data platforms with modern ML tooling.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Bitola
English, Serbian, Croatian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
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image-upload9
template-tags8
flask8
flask-ask8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckan
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data. It powers catalog.data.gov, open.canada.ca/data, data.humdata.org among many other sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 533 commits, 214 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Konstantin primarily focused on modifying the application's core functionality, with a focus on improving the management of the CKAN logo image. Their contributions involved updates to the admin controllers, autoform macros, and schema logic, demonstrating an understanding of the application's configuration and data handling processes. They also worked on the build process and testing frameworks by merging the `master` branch into their branch and making updates to a testing file. These changes suggest they were contributing to the core system.
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mindsdb/mindsdb
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
AGI's query engine - Platform for building AI that can learn and answer questions over federated data.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Integration Engineer
Back-end Developer & Integration EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 5 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin primarily contributed to the development of a CKAN (Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network) handler, indicating a focus on integrating MindsDB with CKAN instances. Their work involved creating a handler class, implementing connection functionalities, and enabling query execution through the CKAN API. Additionally, the user updated tests and added a `get_tables` method, solidifying the integration and ensuring data retrieval capabilities.
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