Mikhail Aristov
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Education
Grades given in the German 6-point grading system.
Degree | Year | Institution | Advanced courses | Final grade |
A Level | 2006 | Kant-Gymnasium, Karlsruhe | Mathematics, physics, and English | 1.4 (A) |
B.Sc. | 2009 | Cooperative State University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Applied Computer Science |
Minor in e-commerce | 1.4 (A) |
M.Sc. | 2018 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science |
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cryptography |
1.0 (A+) |
Master's thesis: "Privacy-Preserving State Estimation via Cryptographically Secure Kalman Filtering" (2018).
Work experience
Years | Company | Position |
2006–09 | FILIADATA GmbH Karlsruhe, Germany |
Internship as part of the job-integrated graduate education (DHBW), with emphasis on SAP (ABAP) development |
2009–13 | dm-drogerie markt GmbH Karlsruhe, Germany | Technology expert for Point of Sale (POS) software development, deployment, and back end operation |
2013–15 | Ibid. | Technology expert for Enterprise Service Management solution design and server administration |
2015–24 | Ibid. | Technology and security expert for cloud-based service management systems and solutions |
Achievements
- Design and implementation of a workflow management and automation tool for SAP instance cloning
- System-wide assessment of quality management in SAP development process and the subsequent design and integration of automated ABAP source code analysis and unit testing (bachelor thesis)
- Design and implementation of a modular POS software deployment process across a multinational store chain
- Design and supervision of a technical merger of legacy IT Service Management applications into a single unified platform
- Design and enactment of security policies, access controls, and user management process for a unified ITSM platform
- Planning and supervision of a VPN and web service-based integration between a foreign partner's ticketing system and own company's ITSM platform
- Design and enactment of a role- and access level-based security policy in a cloud-based enterprise service management system
- Graduating with distinction from one of Germany's top research universities while working in a position of technical responsibility for the industry
Skills
- Team-based problem solving, including specific software development methods like Scrum
- Project management (task prioritizing, resource allocation, cost-benefit analysis, timeboxing, reporting, etc.)
- Coordination and supervision of goal-oriented consultant, freelancer, and intern activities
- Formal academic research and oversight of undergraduate projects and bachelor theses
- Requirements engineering and software design (UML, Java/Eclipse, C#, Python, etc.)
- Web design and application development (PHP, CSS, jQuery, AJAX, SOAP, REST, etc.)
- Server and database administration (Windows Server, IIS, Powershell, SQL Server, MySQL, etc.)
- Information security assessment and policy design, incl. formal cryptography and security models
- IT Service Management (ITIL® Foundation certified)
- Common office and academic software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, LaTeX, etc.)
- Languages: Russian (native speaker), English (near native), German (near native)
- Driver's license since 2014
Interests
- Storytelling: I enjoy reading both history and fiction, as well as participating in original writing, narrative analysis, and critical discussion of both.
- Social gaming: I view gaming as a intense social activity that both hones one's analytic and communication skills and provides substantial stress relief. I am also interested in formal analysis and theory of games.
- Astronomy and astrophysics: I've been fascinated by space exploration since childhood, and have been following the scientific news in space-related quantum physics and cosmology for years.
References
All references available upon request.