Mike Kotsur
Founder at Absolute Value
Randstad, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMike Kotsur is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience helping organisations turn complex technical challenges into pragmatic, customer-centric solutions. He combines first-principles thinking, systems design and hands-on engineering across cloud-native platforms, architecture, and migration projects—from monolith-to-microservices to JVM-Python integrations. Mike excels as a coach, tech lead and workshop facilitator, repeatedly halving lead and cycle times through collaborative goal-setting and pragmatic technical choices. His work spans academia, government and healthcare, including designing a multi-cloud secure data-sharing platform for the City of Amsterdam and rapid MVPs for SURF and Elsevier. Colleagues praise his ability to break complex problems into achievable steps and to keep discussions focused while empowering teams to own outcomes. He brings an unusual mix of technical depth, facilitation skill and product-minded validation—able to define and launch month-long MVPs that test desirability, feasibility and viability.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Applied Mathematics, Specialist Applied Mathematics at Zaporizhzhya National University
English, Dutch, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (152)
testing10
http10
resumable-upload10
uploads10
command-line-tool10
rest10
cli10
json10
aws-lambda10
java10
mocking10
html-form10
macos10
unit-testing10
restful-api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mkotsur/blackbox
Feb 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
sara-nl/data-exchange
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:179 commits, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
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