Self-Employed Software Engineer
Petr
Osetrov
Council Member
Petr Osetrov is a software engineer and information security specialist with over eight years of professional experience spanning ERP systems development, distributed systems architecture, and internet infrastructure research. He has built particular depth in the analysis of internet access restriction mechanisms, contributing open-source projects that examine how blocking and censorship technologies operate within the Russian Federation and what their broader impacts are.
Since November 2021, Petr Osetrov has worked as an independent software engineer, directing his own development practice with a focus on distributed systems, computer networks, and information security. During this period he has authored and maintained several open-source projects under the hyperion-cs organization on GitHub. One of these, dhaf, is a distributed high-availability failover system written in cross-platform C# .NET with support for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Another, dpi-checkers, launched in 2025, provides tooling that allows users to test whether their internet service provider is applying censorship measures at the network level — work that directly extends his ongoing research into deep packet inspection and internet restriction infrastructure.
Prior to his independent work, Petr Osetrov served as an ERP systems developer at Inframine from January 2018 to October 2021, where he spent nearly four years designing and building enterprise resource planning systems. Before that, he completed an internship at Samsung Electronics in the summer of 2017, contributing to a software defect prediction system by developing the interface between system components and the end user, configuring CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and integrating AMQP broker workflows through Python Celery and RabbitMQ. The role placed him within a large collaborative environment spanning the Software Solution Lab and Compiler Tech Lab.
Since November 2021, Petr Osetrov has worked as an independent software engineer, directing his own development practice with a focus on distributed systems, computer networks, and information security. During this period he has authored and maintained several open-source projects under the hyperion-cs organization on GitHub. One of these, dhaf, is a distributed high-availability failover system written in cross-platform C# .NET with support for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Another, dpi-checkers, launched in 2025, provides tooling that allows users to test whether their internet service provider is applying censorship measures at the network level — work that directly extends his ongoing research into deep packet inspection and internet restriction infrastructure.
Prior to his independent work, Petr Osetrov served as an ERP systems developer at Inframine from January 2018 to October 2021, where he spent nearly four years designing and building enterprise resource planning systems. Before that, he completed an internship at Samsung Electronics in the summer of 2017, contributing to a software defect prediction system by developing the interface between system components and the end user, configuring CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, and integrating AMQP broker workflows through Python Celery and RabbitMQ. The role placed him within a large collaborative environment spanning the Software Solution Lab and Compiler Tech Lab.
Outside his professional work, Petr Osetrov contributed to his academic community at the Higher School of Economics, serving as a First-year Coordinator for the Department of Computer Science, Software Engineering from 2017 to 2020, and as a member of the Faculty of Computer Science Student Council from November 2016 to January 2018.
He has authored two publications: "Analysis of Friendship Connections Among Consumers in a Social Network," published in Marketing in Russia and Abroad in June 2017, and "A Few Words About the Privacy of Real Git Repositories," published on Habrahabr in March 2017. He has also completed coursework in Cryptography and Information Security in association with the Higher School of Economics.
He has authored two publications: "Analysis of Friendship Connections Among Consumers in a Social Network," published in Marketing in Russia and Abroad in June 2017, and "A Few Words About the Privacy of Real Git Repositories," published on Habrahabr in March 2017. He has also completed coursework in Cryptography and Information Security in association with the Higher School of Economics.