Eugene Tolmachev
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolEugene Tolmachev is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and deployment automation, currently advancing platform engineering at Microsoft from Mississauga, Ontario. A self-described software craftsman and intentional polyglot, he combines deep systems and architecture experience across finance, telecom, and enterprise cloud from early-career roles to principal architect positions. He contributes to notable open-source tooling for repeatable Azure deployments (Farmer), implementing advanced features like user-assigned managed identities and Application Gateway ARM support that bridge developer ergonomics and production-grade infrastructure. Known for pragmatic design and agile leadership, Eugene blends hands-on coding with architectural strategy and a curiosity for functional programming (hints of a fondness for category theory in his "Endofunctor tourist" GitHub bio).
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning by Stanford University, Machine Learning by Stanford University at Coursera
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
gateway10
arm-templates10
aac10
deployment-automation10
dotnet-core10
azure-functions9
nlog6
log4net6
xamarin-android6
xamarin6
logging6
masstransit6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
CompositionalIT/farmer
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Repeatable Azure deployments with ARM templates - made easy!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 26 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Eugene focused on enhancing the `Farmer` library, a tool for repeatable Azure deployments. Their contributions include implementing user-assigned managed identities for Azure Functions, which required changes to the core builder logic. They also worked on the ARM (Azure Resource Manager) for Application Gateway, adding support for various configurations like frontend ports, HTTP listeners, and backend settings, demonstrating an understanding of both backend infrastructure and deployment automation. Furthermore, they fixed several issues related to the library's output and volume mounts.
armarm-templatesazure-deploymentazuredotnet-core
et1975/FsBunny
May 2017 - Mar 2026
F# API for streaming over RabbitMQ
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 9 years
rabbitmqfsharpevent-driven
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