Mikhail Tsukanau
Senior Security Engineer at EPAM Systems
Minsk, Belarus
Summary
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Top SchoolMikhail Tsukanau is a Senior Security Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, specializing in intrusion detection to prevention transitions, cloud security, and incident response. He has a strong track record of leading security initiatives and implementing robust policies for advanced technologies across roles at EPAM, InCountry, and Delta Freight. A practitioner of both engineering and assurance, he pairs vulnerability assessments and compliance work with development-level contributions to big data tooling—fixing bugs, adding unit tests, and improving HBase/Hadoop compatibility in notable Pentaho repositories. Based in Minsk, he brings formal training in information security and a systems-administration background that helps him bridge operational realities with strategic security design. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, test-backed solutions that reduce risk while keeping complex data integrations running.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Belarusian State University of Informatics and RadioelectronicsAssociate's degree, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, Associate's degree, Computer Programming/Programmer, General at Minsk State Higher Radio Engineering College
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
hbase10
big-data10
hadoop10
java10
javas10
junit10
sqoop10
data-integration10
debug9
debugging9
data-structures8
interaction8
database8
data-structure8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/pentaho-hadoop-shims
Sep 2014 - Feb 2016
Hadoop Configurations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 22 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to the `pentaho/pentaho-hadoop-shims` repository, which focuses on Hadoop configurations. Their work involved implementing HBase-related classes, including comparators for boolean and numeric values, and modifying existing shims for compatibility with various Hadoop distributions, such as CDH 4.7, 5.3, 5.4, and HDP 2.3. Furthermore, the user addressed test failures and added logging for improved connection visibility. The contributions also extended to supporting HBase 1.0 and incorporating security token handling.
hadoopconfigurations
pentaho/big-data-plugin
Nov 2013 - Oct 2015
Kettle plugin that provides support for interacting within many "big data" projects including Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, and others.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 15 PRs, 15 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Pentaho Big Data plugin, focusing on components related to data integration with Hadoop, Hive, HBase, and other big data technologies. Their work includes addressing issues with data parsing (StreamTokenizer), improving localization for steps and job entries, and fixing a regression in the MapReduce Input component. The user also improved Sqoop job entries by adding new parameters and improved parameter ordering. They also addressed a specific issue with the S3 file output step and made improvements to handle HBase connections.
operationhadoop-hivefeature-storehive-hbasemongodb
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