Petr Kohts is a Project Manager with 14 years of experience blending DevOps, integration, and backend engineering across Internet and telecom domains, currently leading projects at IPONWEB from Cyprus. He began his career in DevOps at Yandex and has progressed through hands-on roles in software and integration engineering, pairing technical fluency with delivery leadership at companies like Amdocs and Pontis. Petr contributes to open-source backend work—most notably to the widely used DSpace digital asset management system—where he implemented improvements to item export, bitstream handling, and provenance logging. His background in information security (Bachelor’s in Computer and Information Systems Security) informs a pragmatic, reliability-focused approach to integration challenges. Known for moving between code and coordination, he brings both implementation depth and cross-team orchestration to complex delivery programs.
14 years of coding experience
14 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 Russian University of Humanities
(Official) The DSpace digital asset management system that powers your Institutional Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Petr primarily contributed to the DSpace digital asset management system by modifying backend Java code related to item export, database initialization, and bitstream handling. They implemented features such as the ability to exclude bitstreams during export, improved logging, and addressed database schema configuration issues. Furthermore, the user made changes to the item export functionality and corrected some functionalities of provenance.
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