Aleksey Dukhovniy
Staff Software Engineer at Neo4j
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolAleksey Dukhovniy is a Staff Software Engineer in Hamburg with a decade of experience building resilient, high-scale distributed systems for games, cloud platforms and databases. He has driven backend and DevOps work at Mesosphere—contributing to Marathon and KUDO (the Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator)—and now focuses on Neo4j Aura SaaS, blending operational rigor with production-grade engineering. His strengths include debugging subtle concurrency and reconciliation bugs, refactoring CLI and parameter handling for robustness, and stabilizing CI/SI testbeds for container orchestration. Comfortable across JVM and cloud-native ecosystems, he pairs systems-level performance tuning with pragmatic tooling improvements that reduce operational entropy. Colleagues rely on him to tame race conditions and design scalable backends that survive real-world load spikes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieurin (Dipl.Ing.), Information and Communication Technology, 1.5, Diplom-Ingenieurin (Dipl.Ing.), Information and Communication Technology, 1.5 at Fachhochschule Gelsenkirchen
German, English, Russian
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Github Skills (25)
mesos10
kubernetes10
docker10
testing10
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dockers10
dcos10
cicd10
java10
scala10
javas10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
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devops10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kudobuilder/kudo
May 2019 - Dec 2020
Kubernetes Universal Declarative Operator (KUDO)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:87 reviews, 29 commits, 146 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Aleksey primarily contributed to the KUDO operator project by refactoring and enhancing the `kudoctl` command-line tool, especially around the installation process. Their work included implementing Helm-style parameters and improving parameter validation, along with refactoring the parameter handling to use a map-based approach. Furthermore, they addressed and fixed critical issues related to instance reconciliation, particularly with framework version dependencies and plan status updates. Finally, they implemented support for installing frameworks from local file systems.
zookeeperkubernetes-communitymysqldeclarativeoperator
d2iq-archive/marathon
Sep 2016 - Nov 2019
Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 60 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Aleksey primarily contributed to the Marathon project, focused on deploying and managing containers. The commits demonstrate improvements to the deployment process, including addressing race conditions, enhancing logging, and fixing issues related to secrets and networking. The user also worked on stabilizing system integration (SI) tests, indicating proficiency in automated testing and CI/CD pipelines within the context of a container orchestration platform. The code changes touched upon core components such as deployment actors, launch queues, and testing frameworks.
containersdcosdockerapachescale
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