Teodor Kotov
Principal Software Engineer at Booking.com
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolTeodor Kotov is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently shaping Identity and Privacy systems at Booking.com. He brings deep front-end expertise—especially in JavaScript, SPA architectures and Ember.js—paired with practical full-stack experience across Perl, Java and Go. Teodor has a track record of moving legacy clients to maintainable architectures, instituting development processes and mentoring teams to improve delivery quality. He prefers open source and knowledge sharing, driving engineering decisions with a research-minded, experimental approach rooted in CS fundamentals. Based in the Netherlands, he combines low-level curiosity (tmux/vim, Linux/Mac workflows) with product-focused execution at scale. An understated strength is his habit of turning exploratory prototypes into production-grade systems that balance developer ergonomics and long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Informatics and Computer Engineering at Russian State Technological University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky (MATI)
English, Russian
Github Skills (20)
bug-tracker8
javascript7
science7
planning7
algorithm6
project-management6
documentation-template6
webrtc5
oauth5
computer-science5
architecture5
documentation4
translation3
ember-cli1
effort1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Microfed/Git-bash-alisases
Oct 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 2 years
Microfed/HabrahabrCorrection
Sep 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:30 commits in 6 months
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