Mike Kazantsev
Senior System Analyst at Alfa-Bank
Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Serbia
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Top SchoolMike Kazantsev is a Senior System Analyst with 18 years of IT experience who designs integration-first architectures and leads cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems. He has deep hands-on experience with microservices, REST/BFF patterns, message-driven platforms (RabbitMQ, Kafka) and data modeling, and recently architected a corporate mobile onboarding flow and CRM–internet banking data synchronization at Alfa-Bank. Comfortable wearing both analyst and Scrum Master hats, he builds rigorous documentation and backlog processes in Confluence and Jira to keep complex projects transparent and on schedule. His long-standing open-source contributions span security-focused tooling and core utilities—work on projects like zerobin and libarchive shows attention to robustness, compatibility, and testability. Based in Yekaterinburg/Serbia, he pairs systems thinking with interests in philosophy and endurance sports, bringing discipline and a bias for long-term clarity to architectural decisions. He is open to collaborations that unite technical rigor with human-centered growth.
18 years of coding experience
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
music-manager10
javascript10
archiving10
coffeescript10
python10
testing10
media-library10
c1110
c1710
libarchive10
musicxml10
irc10
encryption10
chatbot10
cli10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
libarchive/libarchive
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Multi-format archive and compression library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits in 5 days
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the `bsdcat` utility, enhancing its functionality and improving its overall behavior. They implemented the core feature of auto-detecting and processing various archive formats, aligning the utility's functionality with standard cat utilities by processing as many files as possible, even if errors occurred. The contributions included refactoring the code by replacing `getopt_long` to `getopt` for compatibility. Furthermore, they added basic tests, showing a focus on test-driven development for the newly created utility.
multi-formatrarbz2backupposix
Tygs/0bin
Apr 2013 - Apr 2013
Client side encrypted pastebin
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Mike significantly contributed to the `zerobin` project, developing the `zerobinpaste` command-line tool. They added key features such as an expiration option and seeding the PRNG from /dev/(u)random for improved security. The user also updated documentation related to the new tool and implemented changes to both the interface and backend for key generation, including shorter key lengths, and paste-id modifications.
pythonclient-sidepastebinencryptedpastebin-service
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