Mikl Kurkov is a seasoned CTO and software engineer with 16 years of experience building distributed systems, realtime messaging platforms, and enterprise-grade backends. He leads Fogbender’s design and delivery of a SOC2-compliant, Nix-driven infrastructure and Elixir/PostgreSQL realtime messaging API, while also architecting ABAC with an embedded DSL and OpenTelemetry observability. His career spans deep Erlang expertise—powering chat relays, protocol bridges and scalable game engines—to practical work on P2P lending systems and Oracle/Ruby adapter fixes visible in open-source contributions. Comfortable at both hands-on implementation and technical leadership, he routinely combines functional and concurrent programming techniques with IaC (Pulumi) and automated CI/CD to ship resilient services. Based in Moscow, he pairs strong communication skills with a curiosity for new languages and tooling, evidenced by cross-language projects from Erlang/C to TypeScript and Python.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Communication Broadcasting and Television, Engineer Communication Broadcasting and Television at Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI)
Contributions summary:Mikl contributed extensively to enhancing the `oracle-enhanced` adapter for ActiveRecord. Their work primarily focused on implementing and improving support for Oracle-specific features, particularly virtual columns within the schema definition and migration process. This included fixes to address default value handling, schema dumping, and the addition of new syntax for virtual columns. The user's commits also covered test enhancements and bug fixes related to virtual column behavior.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 6 months
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Mikl Kurkov - Chief Technology Officer at Fogbender Software