Petr Kovalev
Director Of Engineering at Venn Software
Kemer, Antalya, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Kovalev is a Director of Engineering with 11+ years building secure, compliance-driven products and end-to-end ownership from MVP to production and support. He blends enterprise .NET backend expertise and a decade of Xamarin mobile experience with practical MDM and VPN integrations (including WireGuard per-app iOS and always‑on Android). At Venn and its predecessor OS33 he led migrations to AWS, custom cloud drive and SharePoint integrations, and scaled security-first workspaces trusted by large financial customers. Petr pairs software leadership with hands-on hardware and embedded experience—he’s shipped microcontroller-based devices and understands server RAID and enterprise hardware at a low level. An open-source contributor, he has optimized performance in the official AWS SDK for .NET by replacing regexes with leaner implementations, showing a focus on pragmatic, measurable improvements. Based in Kemer, Turkey, he combines CS and business management training to hire, mentor, and deliver complex regulated systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer science, Informatics, AI, Genetic algorithms, Neural networks, Specialist, Computer science, Informatics, AI, Genetic algorithms, Neural networks at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
English, Russian
Github Skills (6)
aws-sdk10
csharp10
performance-optimization10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
regular-expression6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-net
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
The official AWS SDK for .NET. For more information on the AWS SDK for .NET, see our web site:
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Petr focused on optimizing performance within the AWS SDK for .NET, specifically targeting the `AWSSDKUtils.CompressSpaces` method, which is frequently used in signing operations. Their primary contribution involved refactoring the whitespace compression logic, replacing regular expressions with a manual implementation to improve performance. Further contributions included code cleanup, removing unused code, and addressing minor updates to the SDK's utility functions.
dotnetweb-sitesdkaws-sdkcsharp
Petr-Kovalev/punched-cards-fashion-mnist
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
Object recognition by random binary data lookup for Fashion MNIST
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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