Dan Tsekhanskiy
Senior Staff Software Engineer at NVIDIA
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Tsekhanskiy is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building code-driven, scalable SRE solutions for large enterprise fleets, currently driving infrastructure reliability at NVIDIA after leading Windows imaging and automation efforts at Google. He combines deep Windows systems expertise—contributing to Google’s open-source Glazier project—with cross-platform engineering in Go, Python, and PowerShell to manage hundreds of thousands of devices. Known for reducing operational toil through automation, he’s comfortable shipping low-level tooling (including a Python wrapper and enhanced download/googet logic) and operating at fleet scale. Based in New York, he blends systems administration roots with senior engineering leadership, often surfacing pragmatic improvements that make complex imaging pipelines more reliable and auditable.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Information Systems at Baruch College
Github Skills (8)
text-manipulation10
strings10
python10
subprocess9
lib9
error-handling9
testing8
windows7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
google/glazier
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
A tool for automating the installation of the Microsoft Windows operating system on various device platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 247 commits, 38 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the Glazier project by modifying and expanding the `download` and `googet` libraries. Their work included enhancing string replacement logic within the `download` library and creating a Python wrapper for the Googet binary, including supporting optional parameters and branch-based string replacements. Further modifications were made to include checks for WinPE and other features, integrating these with code for better error messages.
windowsoperating-systemplatformsinstallationoperating
TsekNet/tseknet
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 15 pushes in 5 months
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