Uladzimir Kazakevich has been writing code for as long as he can remember. He is a developer, consultant, and solution architect. With over 15 years of experience in delivering solutions across industry sectors, such as social media, education, e-commerce and finance, he specializes in technologies, such as Microsoft .NET, WebAPI, Windows Communication Foundation, MSSQL, Microsoft Azure, scalable and high-performant infrastructure. He is certified by SEI as Software Architecture Professional and is TOGAF 9-certified.

Uladzimir serves as Head of EPAM Microsoft Competency Center with focus on Solution Architecture. His key focus is to harness, develop, and scale innovative technologies and engineering methodologies in the company, competency center and successfully apply them in client engagements.

When he codes for fun, he spends his time using Arduinos, sensors, Raspberry Pis, and Azure Machine Learning to build own house automation system. He is also the organizer of local TechTalks and SETCON conferences; he is also an active speaker at such events.

Uladzimir lives in Brest, Belarus, with his wonderful wife Alena and their awesome little girl Nika.