Denis Bozhok
Engineering Manager Of Platform Development Unit
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Bozhok is an engineering leader with 12 years' experience building high‑load, fault‑tolerant systems and currently heads the Platform Development Unit at Ostrovok.ru. He has grown engineering organizations (60→160), founded a technical unit and Architectural Committee, and led SRE and distributed tracing initiatives that improved observability and reliability. Denis combines hands‑on infrastructure expertise—migrating from AWS to bare metal for 3x cost savings and 2x performance gains—with developer-focused practices like internal DevRel, hiring reforms, and engineering manager introductions. He has deep operational skills across databases, networking, CI/CD and custom Nginx modules, and has steered companies through large DDoS incidents and multi‑datacenter migrations. Trained originally in cinematography, he brings a creative, automation‑first mindset to simplify complex systems and surface practical, scalable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Cinematography and Film/Video Production at Minsk
English, Russian, Japanese
Github Skills (128)
python10
ssh10
openstreetmap10
ansible10
mapnik10
cartocss10
javascript9
monitoring9
geocoding9
logstash9
data-visualization9
dashboard9
grafana9
automation9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
undying/krontage
Mar 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:100 pushes in 5 years 9 months
undying/undying.github.io
Jan 2016 - Feb 2024
Contributions:80 pushes, 3 branches, 4 comments in 8 years 2 months
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