Stepan Fedotov
Auditor at OtterSec
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolStepan Fedotov is a trilingual software engineer and auditor based in Helsinki with 11 years of experience building and securing scalable, highly-available systems. He combines deep Laravel/PHP backend expertise with a polyglot toolset (Go, Node.js, Python, Scala, Java) and hands-on infrastructure skills in Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, MySQL/MariaDB and Redis. As technical lead of a commercial fork of the popular Pterodactyl game panel and a contributor to its backend, he has practical experience hardening APIs, improving database interactions and adapting open-source projects for production use. He has run globally distributed infrastructure and automated provisioning at scale, and more recently has shifted into security-focused roles including auditing. Fluent in Finnish, Russian and English, he also brings working knowledge of Swedish and German, which helps him operate across Nordic and international teams. Notably, he has delivered custom billing and DRM-like update systems that balance UX, reliability and protection for commercial deployments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Finnish, Russian, and English, Baccalaureate, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Finnish, Russian, and English at Munkkiniemen YhteiskouluBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Aalto University
Finnish, English, Russian
Github Skills (16)
php10
api10
laravel10
apidoc10
laravel-mix10
database-design9
database-administration9
json9
mysql8
docker4
golang4
dockers4
typescripts3
typescript3
typescript-types3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pterodactyl/panel
Oct 2017 - Dec 2020
Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful and intuitive UI to end users.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 62 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Stepan primarily contributed to the backend of the Pterodactyl panel, focusing on database interactions and API improvements. Their work included granting database privileges, fixing API issues, and modifying server and egg transformers to include more comprehensive data. They also addressed security vulnerabilities and made adjustments to various transformers to enhance the data returned by the application API.
react-phptailwindcssintuitivemindisolated
wisp-gg/gamequery
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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