Anton Ovchinnikov
Senior Software Engineer at Dynatrace
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolAnton Ovchinnikov is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in cloud technologies, DevOps, and site reliability, now based in Vienna and currently at Dynatrace. He combines hands-on backend and low-level programming skills with infrastructure leadership, having managed teams and led reliability efforts at Sentry where he progressed from SRE to Engineering Manager. Anton is an active open-source contributor with notable improvements across projects like neovim, the_silver_searcher, and Sentry’s SDKs and CLI—work that spans build systems, CI/CD automation, and cross-language SDK features. His contributions show attention to robustness and portability, from fixing Python 3 compatibility and memory leaks to adding Android and crashpad support in native SDKs. He brings a security-aware mindset and pragmatic engineering: automating releases, tightening build security, and improving observability tooling in production. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented problem-solver who bridges Dev and Ops to ship reliable systems end-to-end.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Specialist at Saint Petersburg State UniversityEidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
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Github Skills (61)
monitoring10
code-optimization10
docker10
c-language10
sentry10
postgresql10
continuous-integration10
tracer10
google-breakpad10
text-editor10
back-end-development10
python10
api-design10
scripting10
django10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry-go
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
The official Go SDK for Sentry (sentry.io)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 66 commits, 103 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Anton primarily contributed to the Sentry Go SDK, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements. Their work included addressing issues with dynamic sampling, adding a `BeforeSendTransaction` hook for transaction event processing, and modifying test configurations. They also refactored example code and implemented new features for the tracing components within the SDK. The user made several changes that impacted the SDK's core functionality.
golangsentry-iosentryerror-monitoringsdk
getsentry/sentry-cli
Apr 2018 - Jun 2020
A command line utility to work with Sentry.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 2 reviews, 62 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on improving the build and deployment processes for the `sentry-cli` project. Their contributions include refactoring and optimizing Linux CI builds, configuring Docker builds, adding security enhancements, and streamlining the release process using the "craft" tool. Additionally, they addressed compatibility issues with shell scripts and improved the integration with Azure Pipelines. These improvements indicate a focus on automating builds, improving performance, and creating robust deployment pipelines.
sentryrustcommand-line-utilitysentry-clicrash-reporting
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