Danil Kipnis
Staff Software Developer at IONOS
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDanil Kipnis is a Staff Software Developer based in Berlin with eight years of industry experience and a deep foundation in computational mathematics and distributed systems. He has led storage platform engineering and kernel-level storage and RDMA work at IONOS, combining hands-on Linux kernel development with team leadership, sprint planning, and open-source upstreaming. His background spans cloud architecture for critical infrastructure (railway sector) and early research in wireless sensor networks and MAC/routing protocols, reflecting a strong blend of theory and applied systems engineering. Danil is comfortable moving between low-level performance optimization and higher-level architecture and operational concerns, often focusing on storage virtualization and provisioning. He is experienced in coaching, recruitment, and cross-disciplinary project delivery, and has a track record of presenting and integrating community-driven solutions. An often-overlooked strength is his long-term continuity across roles—from firmware and tooling to kernel and cloud—enabling pragmatic solutions that bridge research, open source, and production systems.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinComputational and Applied Mathematics, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU) 
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (10)
upstream5
distro5
manjaro5
kernel4
linux3
linux-kernel3
zen3
libc2
measurement1
performance-measurement1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ionos-enterprise/ibnbd
Oct 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:242 commits, 19 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 6 months
ionos-enterprise/rnbd
Jun 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:330 commits, 25 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 1 month
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