Danila Shtan
Chief Technology Officer at Nebius
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorDanila Shtan is a pragmatic technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Amsterdam with 15 years of experience building and scaling developer infrastructure and product engineering organizations. He has led large engineering teams at Yandex (including a 140-person developer tools org and a 200-person classifieds engineering org) and transformed operations and culture as CTO at Tochka Bank and other fast-moving companies. Danila combines hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to the well-known uWSGI project improving its cache bitmap allocation—with strategic work designing monorepo tools, distributed builds, CI/workflow systems and migration to containerized ops. He excels at untangling complex legacy systems into domain-focused services and creating the governance and hiring frameworks that let autonomous teams thrive. Known for a direct, common-sense approach, he favors practical, measurable improvements over theoretical solutions. His background spans both deep technical fixes and large-scale organizational design, making him effective at bridging code-level detail and executive strategy.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, English
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Github Skills (15)
c1710
caching10
c1110
performance-optimization10
uwsgi9
git6
storage6
tornado6
nginx6
mongodb6
bson6
github6
teamcity6
gridfs6
twig6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
unbit/uwsgi
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
uWSGI application server container
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Danila focused on fixing and optimizing the bitmap allocation within the uWSGI application server. They addressed bugs related to offset calculations, bit manipulation, and interval handling in the cache module. The contributions involved correcting typos and improving the efficiency of the caching mechanism's core functionality, which directly affects how data is stored and retrieved.
containersdockeruwsgiservercontainer
holacracyone/Holacracy-Constitution-4.1-RUSSIAN
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 10 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 months
translationconstitutionrussian-translation
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