Yury Zaytsev
Chief Executive Officer at Xyzzy GmbH
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolYury Zaytsev is a seasoned software leader and CEO with 16 years of experience building scalable systems, growing engineering teams, and turning research-grade software into production-ready products. He has held technical and executive roles including CTO and Managing Director at moneymeets, where he scaled teams past 20 engineers and helped grow ARR to €2M while closing a ~€10M funding round. His background spans high-performance C++ systems, cloud automation (Ansible), and CI/CD, and he contributes to notable open-source projects such as Midnight Commander, Cython, and Ansible—improving file-transfer security, polishing documentation, and adding tested automation modules. With a PhD in Computational Neuroscience, Yury combines rigorous research experience (large-scale parallel optimization and neuroinformatics) with practical product delivery and organizational building. Based in the Cologne/Bonn region, he is also an ethical hacker and aviation enthusiast, blending operational security insight with a pilot’s eye for systems and reliability.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational Neuroscience at The University of FreiburgSpecialist in Physics Physics, Specialist in Physics Physics at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)High School Diploma Physics and mathematics, High School Diploma Physics and mathematics at Lyceum 40, Nizhny Novgorod
English, Russian, German, French
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Github Skills (35)
file-management10
python10
packaging10
centos10
build-system10
ftp10
c1110
c1710
rpm10
package10
cython10
packager10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
build-tools10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
MidnightCommander/mc-old
Jul 2009 - Jan 2023
Midnight Commander's repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 238 commits, 28 PRs in 13 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yury primarily contributed to the Midnight Commander's file transfer subsystem, focusing on improving the Fish protocol. They implemented enhancements to the handling of user authentication during SSH connections, ensuring correct usernames are passed to the shell. In addition, the user refactored the FTP connection setup logic for better robustness, addressing endianness issues and active/passive connection schemes. This work led to improved security and reliability of the file transfer features.
midnight-commandermidnight
repoforge/rpms
Aug 2009 - May 2012
RepoForge.Org package specifications. This is where you can modify RepoForge.Org packages!
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:304 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yury's primary contribution involves modifying package specifications for the RepoForge.Org repository. Their commits focus on updating SPEC files, which define how software packages are built and managed, including adding patches for compatibility with different CentOS versions. This suggests a focus on back-end development and build processes.
emacsorg-modemodifyspecifications
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