ARAnton Rusakov

RESUME · UPDATED OCTOBER 2026

Anton Rusakov

IT specialist with an engineering background — B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Informatics & Computer Engineering, both with distinction — and three years as the sole IT administrator for about 50 users. Alongside work: self-hosted Linux infrastructure. Now studying Cognitive Science (ML/AI) in Osnabrück.

Experience

IT System Administrator
Techincom (PK “Techincom-Center”), Tver, Russia
2020 — 2023 · FULL-TIME, ALONGSIDE STUDIES
  • Sole IT administrator for about 50 users: Windows Server, Active Directory (Group Policy, user lifecycle), DNS/DHCP, file and print services, a Synology file server and a 1C accounting server.
  • Configured a MikroTik router and firewall — VLANs by work zone, DHCP, traffic filtering, port forwarding — replaced a bottleneck switch and set up a GOST/CryptoPro VPN on site.
  • Ran backups and restores, updates, password and SSH-key rotation and incident analysis; PowerShell scripts for maintenance.
  • Deployed Kaspersky endpoint protection with a local update server, imaged workstations with Acronis on Windows and Astra Linux, ran virtual machines on VMware.
  • First- and second-line support through Jira tickets with priorities; printers, PCs, network and CCTV faults; mail clients for Microsoft 365, Exchange Online and Google Workspace accounts.
  • Structured cabling (3 floors, 70–100 outlets: laying, crimping, patch panels, testing) and CCTV (about 50 IP cameras, a separate video server, remote viewing).
Mechanical assembly fitter (seasonal)
Techincom (PK “Techincom-Center”), Tver, Russia
SUMMERS 2016 — 2019 · 3 MONTHS EACH
  • Fire-truck body paneling; earned the 4th-grade qualification as a mechanical assembly fitter.

Projects

Self-hosted infrastructure
SINCE 2023 · FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS
  • Two Ubuntu servers (Hetzner) with Nginx, systemd, UFW, fail2ban and key-only SSH; a self-hosted VPN and a Docker Compose stack.
  • Git (20+ repositories), GitHub Actions CI/CD and Bash deployment scripts; mail for my own domain through Cloudflare Email Routing and a Postfix relay.
  • Security checks of my own servers with nmap and Wireshark; practice on TryHackMe.
Website for a friends’ ceramics workshop
2026 · BUILT WITH AI ASSISTANTS
  • Static site on a VPS: Nginx, Let’s Encrypt and a pull-based systemd deployment timer with health check and rollback; built together with AI assistants (Claude, Codex).
Neural networks from scratch
M.SC. COURSEWORK · 2025 — 2026
  • A multilayer perceptron written in NumPy to forecast Moscow Exchange stocks, with an honest evaluation: next-day price is not predictable, volatility partly is.
  • Deep-learning exercises in PyTorch (attention, generative models), a spiking-neural-network hackathon and LLM-explainability work.
AI for Integrative Scientific Discovery
TEAM STUDY PROJECT · 6 PEOPLE · 2026
  • About 70 commits to a multi-agent research system: agent memory and token budgeting, provider rate-limit handling, reproducible runs, a results dashboard and LLM schema compatibility across providers; run on a GPU cluster.
IoT — road-surface quality monitoring
MASTER'S THESIS · 2024
  • M5Stack / ESP32 firmware (Arduino) with two IMU sensors, Bluetooth to an Android app (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose) and Firebase; rule-based detection of slopes, potholes and rough surfaces, tested on a scooter.
  • Grew out of the intelligent-navigation project at Hochschule Osnabrück.
Enterprise LAN modernization
BACHELOR'S THESIS · 2022 · DEPLOYED IN PRODUCTION
  • Designed VLAN / inter-VLAN, NAT, DHCP, DMZ and VPN in Cisco Packet Tracer (ASA simulation) and documented it in MS Visio.
  • The practical variant went live on MikroTik with an acceptance act: VLANs by work zone, traffic filtering and a replaced bottleneck switch.

Education

M.Sc. Cognitive Science in progress
Universität Osnabrück, Germany
2024 — PRESENT · ML / AI FOCUS
  • Selected coursework: Foundations of Machine Learning, Introduction to Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Methods of AI, Explainability of Large Language Models, Advanced Topics in Network Security, Automated Proof Assistants.
  • Study project: AI for Integrative Scientific Discovery (see Projects).
M.Sc. Informatics & Computer Engineering with distinction
Tver State Technical University, Russia
2022 — 2024 · 120 ECTS
  • Thesis (excellent): IoT road-surface quality monitoring (see Projects).
  • Core topics: intelligent systems, cloud computing & big-data storage, distributed data-processing systems, system & network administration, information security, real-time data processing.
Exchange semesters — M.Sc. Computer Science
Hochschule Osnabrück, Germany
2023 — 2024 · DISTRIBUTED & MOBILE APPLICATIONS · 25 ECTS
  • Research project on intelligent navigation in the Technische Informatik lab (Prof. Dr.-Ing. C. Westerkamp) — the prototype later became the master’s thesis.
  • Incoming OUAS scholarship (SS 2024).
B.Sc. Informatics & Computer Engineering
Tver State Technical University, Russia
2018 — 2022 · COMPUTERS, COMPLEXES, SYSTEMS & NETWORKS · 240 ECTS
  • Thesis (excellent): enterprise LAN modernization — designed and deployed at a real company (acceptance act issued).

Skills

Networks & Infrastructure

LAN design, MikroTik (VLAN, DHCP, firewall), VPN, DNS, structured cabling, CCTV. Cisco Packet Tracer and MS Visio for design.

Systems Administration

Windows Server, Active Directory and Group Policy, Linux (Astra, Ubuntu), VMware, Kaspersky, Acronis, Jira, PowerShell, backup and recovery, 1C server operations.

Self-hosted & DevOps (basic)

Nginx, systemd, Docker Compose, Git and GitHub, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Bash. Hetzner, Cloudflare. AI-assisted development with Claude and Codex.

Security & Databases

AD policies, traffic filtering, backup and recovery; security checks of my own servers (nmap, Wireshark, Kali; TryHackMe practice). PostgreSQL basics, SQLite, database design.

Development

Python (bots, FastAPI, automation), C#, OOP; Swift/SwiftUI and React side projects (unpublished); ESP32, Android (Kotlin, Compose), Firebase.

Machine Learning

NumPy and PyTorch, deep learning, computer vision, LLM explainability; a from-scratch MLP and a GPU-cluster research project.

Distributed systems Cloud & big data Real-time processing Deep learning Computer vision IT project management AI-assisted development

Languages

Native
RUSSIAN
C1
ENGLISH
B1
GERMAN

Certificates: 1C:Enterprise programmer (72 hours, 2022) · EF SET English 72/100 · OUAS scholarship (summer 2024).

References: Prof. Dr.-Ing. C. Westerkamp (Hochschule Osnabrück) and Fares Abu-Abed, Ph.D (Tver STU) — available on request.