Aleksandr Dinu
Software Engineer at Databricks
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandr Dinu is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed systems and web applications, now working at Databricks. He specializes in Python, AWS, PostgreSQL and Linux, and has a strong track record of improving reliability, performance and development processes across production services. His background spans security-sensitive systems and identity & access management at Booking.com to IoT/monitoring at Samotics, showing comfort with both incident response and long-term platform design. Aleksandr enjoys root-cause analysis and post-mortems, turning incident learnings into tooling and process improvements that make teammates’ lives easier. He contributes to backend open-source projects such as django-hstore, where he implemented spatial adapters and PostGIS support, reflecting an attention to database and GIS integration details. Based in Amsterdam, he follows software verification and programming-language research, bringing a thoughtful, research-aware mindset to pragmatic engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Computer Science, Specialist Computer Science at Tyumen State University
Github Skills (8)
postgresql10
postgis10
python10
back-end-development10
geodjango10
django10
sql9
database-design9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
djangonauts/django-hstore
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
PostgreSQL HStore support for Django.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Aleksandr primarily contributed to the backend of the Django-hstore project, focusing on integrating PostgreSQL's HStore and PostGIS extensions. Their work involved adding support for spatial queries and features by modifying existing Django GIS backend files. They also addressed a GeoDjango-related bug and fixed an issue in the setup file. Furthermore, the user added a spatial adapter.
djangohstorepostgresql
aluuu/spatial_index
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:50 commits, 5 pushes in 2 months
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