Denis Kisselev
Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Kisselev is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 12 years building cloud-native systems and developer tooling across Microsoft, Stripe, Toast, Bolt, and currently Gusto. He blends backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to projects like Azure Service Operator where he improved controller logic and custom secret formatting—with full‑stack work on developer docs tooling such as daux.io. Denis has a track record of stabilizing and shipping production-critical features, updating dependencies, and improving test and build pipelines at scale. He excels at bridging platform engineering and application teams to streamline deployments and operational reliability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design tradeoffs and hands-on code leadership across both monoliths and distributed systems. He brings a computer science foundation from the University of Victoria and a habit of fixing subtle issues like timezone and URL edge cases that often slip past reviewers.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Victoria
English, Russian
Github Skills (24)
markdown10
kubernetes10
css10
secret-management10
document-generation10
microsoft-azure10
php10
go10
markdown-it10
kubernetes-pods10
azure10
documents10
documentation10
operator10
dockers9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
justinwalsh/daux.io
Jul 2013 - Apr 2015
Daux.io is an documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great looking documentation in a developer friendly way.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Denis primarily contributed to the Daux.io documentation generator, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. Their work included implementing features like disabling clean URLs, modifying CSS for styling, and addressing timezone issues. The user also merged branches and removed debugging traces, indicating involvement in code maintenance and integration.
documentation-generatoron-the-flygreatdauxfolder-structure
Azure/azure-service-operator
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Azure Service Operator allows you to create Azure resources using kubectl
Role in this project:Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Denis primarily contributed to the backend logic and deployment aspects of the Azure Service Operator. Their work involved updating dependencies, modifying controller logic for Azure SQL FailoverGroup and KeyVault secrets, and implementing custom secret formatting options for AzureSQLUser. Additionally, the user made changes to the test suite and build files. These contributions suggest involvement in both application development and infrastructure management, likely to improve the functionality and deployment process of the operator.
kubernetes-operatorsazure-resourceskubectloperatorkubernetes
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