Todd Kazakov
Lead Backend Engineer at Tidepool
Bulgaria
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Top SchoolTodd Kazakov is a Lead Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, data-centric systems for companies ranging from startups to global travel brands. He has architected scalable microservice platforms and authentication systems (OpenID Connect) at Lonely Planet, led backend at Tidepool, and co-founded a data science platform that attracted Fortune 500 beta users and Silicon Valley accelerator backing. Todd’s strengths span distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes), and production-focused tooling for data scientists, with hands-on work in Scala, Elixir, Go, TypeScript and Java. He contributes to open-source identity tooling, notably enhancing a Keycloak user-migration plugin with legacy ID migration and bearer-token authentication. Based in Bulgaria, he is open to remote opportunities where he can blend algorithmic thinking, machine-learning workflows, and robust backend engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who turns complex, number-crunching requirements into reliable, testable systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Computer Science/Software Engineering, Computer Science, First Class, BEng Computer Science/Software Engineering, Computer Science, First Class at The University of BirminghamAdvanced Computing, Computer Science, Advanced Computing, Computer Science at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (15)
keycloak10
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
junit10
rest-client10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
jtest10
adsense6
user-interface6
ads6
overriding6
r6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
daniel-frak/keycloak-user-migration
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
A Keycloak plugin for migrating users from legacy systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Todd's primary contribution involved enhancing a Keycloak plugin for user migration. They added the functionality to migrate legacy user IDs and implemented bearer token authentication for REST API interactions. They also refactored code, removed obsolete sections, and created tests, including tests for a Bearer Token Request Filter, and added a setting for credential validation to use user ID instead of username.
keycloakkeycloak-pluginhapijs
tidepool-org/clinic
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Clinic Administration
Contributions:79 reviews, 263 commits, 162 PRs in 1 year 7 months
administrationclinic
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