Michael Kazakov
Principal R&D Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Kazakov is a senior staff R&D engineer and native-app specialist with 15 years turning complex concepts into high-performance, reliable software—most notably as the creator and maintainer of Nimble Commander, a 90k+ SLoC macOS file manager built in C++/Objective-C. He blends deep systems and cross-platform expertise (macOS, Windows, POSIX) with hands-on product ownership—handling development, sales, support and even XPC-based privileged services for advanced file-system features. His background includes leading game-studio engineering and porting engines across platforms, optimizing for constrained devices, and teaching computer vision at the graduate level, anchored by a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Based in Exeter, UK, Michael is equally comfortable shipping native performance-critical code and architecting virtual file systems for archives, FTP/SSH and object storage integrations—skills that make him a rare engineer who combines research depth with long-term product stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Computer Vision, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Computer Vision at Altai State Technical University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
llvm10
terminal-emulator10
graphic10
vfs10
cocoa10
file-manager10
toolchain10
compiler10
macos10
cpp10
qemu9
miner9
mining9
lima-vm8
containerd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mikekazakov/pstld
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Experimental implementation of ParallelSTL on top of GCD aka libdispatch
Contributions:2 releases, 115 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 1 month
libdispatch
mikekazakov/habanero
Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years
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