Andrii Dembitskyi
Lead Platform Engineer
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrii Dembitskyi is a Lead Platform Engineer and former Head of Development with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-load, cloud-native backend systems. He specializes in platform modernization, Kubernetes orchestration, and CI/CD automation, having led migrations across GCP, DigitalOcean and AWS and driven SLO-based observability to 99.99% stability. Andrii repeatedly delivered non-disruptive platform transformations—rebuilding a CMS for 10–50x peak loads and converting a full-stack CMS to a Headless GraphQL backend without feature freeze. He combines hands-on expertise in Go, PHP (Symfony/Swoole), and distributed datastores with a people-first leadership style that emphasizes mentoring, knowledge sharing, and automated onboarding. An active contributor to well-known PHP projects (Symfony docs, Doctrine DBAL, Psalm), he blends production-grade engineering with attention to developer ergonomics and security hardening. Now based in Poland, he’s seeking technically ambitious projects where he can apply both deep engineering and organizational craftsmanship to build resilient, scalable products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Fwdays - Crash Course: Chief Technology Officer 3.0Bachelor's degree Software engineering, Bachelor's degree Software engineering at Zhytomyr Polytechnic State UniversityJunior Specialist Software development, Junior Specialist Software development at Zhytomyr Cooperative College of Business and Law
Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (28)
type-inference10
static-analysis10
query-builder10
databases10
security10
doc10
security-testing10
doctrine-dbal10
php10
sql10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
security-scan10
documentation10
database10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
symfony/symfony-docs
May 2019 - Aug 2022
The Symfony documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andrii primarily contributed to the Symfony documentation. Their commits focused on correcting examples in the PHP configuration files, fixing the problem normalizer example, updating information about Symfony Flex's default behavior, recommending the use of root `controller` attributes in route definitions, removing an unsupported configuration option, and adding information on the semantics of the Redis timeout option. These changes indicate a focus on refining the documentation's accuracy, clarity, and completeness for developers using the Symfony framework.
bundlephpsymfonysymfony-bundle
vimeo/psalm
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
A PHP static analysis tool for finding errors and security vulnerabilities in PHP applications
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrii primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the PHP static analysis tool, Psalm. Their work involved addressing issues related to option handling within the tool, specifically focusing on plugin and configuration settings. These contributions included modifications to core files such as `src/psalm.php`, `src/psalter.php`, and `src/Psalm/Config.php`, along with related test updates, improving the tool's functionality and usability. Additionally, the user addressed a bug in the extension's stubs code.
security-analysisfindingphptaint-analysisphp-applications
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