Mikhail Mazurskiy
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolMikhail Mazurskiy is a senior backend engineer with 16 years of experience and over a decade focused on server-side systems, distributed architectures, and fault-tolerant design. Based in Greater Sydney, he works primarily with Go, AWS and Kubernetes and combines system design with hands-on implementation, testing and code review. A regular open-source contributor, Mikhail has improved core projects like Kubernetes, gRPC-Go, OpenTelemetry and client-go—work that addresses concurrency, reliability and API machinery. He brings practical devops experience (leader election, ConfigMaps, build tooling) and a strong testing/QA mindset evidenced by contributions to libraries such as HikariCP, AssertJ and hot-shots. Colleagues can expect thoughtful refactors and resilience-focused fixes rather than quick patches, and he’s active in the Kubernetes community (ash2k on Slack).
16 years of coding experience
Technician, Automated control systems, Technician, Automated control systems at Ufa College of Statistics, Information Technology and Computer EngineeringBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ufa State Aviation Technical University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (69)
dependency-management10
skylark10
statsd10
testing10
http10
javas10
automation10
automation-testing10
build-automation10
opentelemetry10
refactoring10
trace10
concurrency10
javascript10
client-library10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/apimachinery
May 2017 - May 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 1 comment in 5 years
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily focused on the `apimachinery` library within the Kubernetes project. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to `OwnerReferences` and the unstructured converter, and refactoring existing code to improve functionality. They also improved existing start functions, refactored them into an object, and fixed an issue where the shared informer Run blocked until all goroutines finish. These commits demonstrate a focus on core API machinery components.
k8s-staging
argoproj/gitops-engine
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Democratizing GitOps
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 25 commits, 32 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to improving the `gitops-engine` project by addressing data races and dependencies. They fixed a data race issue related to a named return variable, enhancing the code's safety. Furthermore, they removed unnecessary dependencies, replaced and updated existing ones to improve code quality and dependency management. Several commits focused on streamlining manifest parsing and improving stability.
continuous-deploymentgitopskubernetes
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