Mike Belopuhov is an engineering manager and systems programmer with 18 years of experience specializing in C and Rust for kernel, networking and cryptography engineering. He spent over a decade contributing to OpenBSD’s kernel—implementing networking stacks, PF/NAT64, IPsec, AES‑GCM/AES‑NI and virtualization support for Xen and Hyper‑V—and has production experience with high‑speed NIC drivers and traffic control (FQ‑CoDel). Since 2018 he has applied Rust to secure execution appliances and backend systems, and now leads engineering efforts while retaining deep low‑level expertise. Colleagues rely on him for rare cross‑discipline skills spanning hardware drivers, cryptographic frameworks and virtualization plumbing, plus pragmatic performance and security tradeoffs. Based in Hanover, Germany, he combines long-term open source craftsmanship with hands‑on delivery in both contractor and management roles.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Saint Petersburg University of Telecommunications
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
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