Denys Kozhevnikov
Software Engineer at Stripe
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolDenys Kozhevnikov is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building web-based, distributed, and highly scalable systems, currently working on LPM Common Code & Observability at Stripe in Dublin. He has strong backend expertise from roles at Stripe and AWS, where he contributed to CloudWatch, and a history of leading engineering efforts in smaller firms. Practical and precise, he focuses on delivering bug-free code with a clear understanding of business requirements and operational needs. An active open-source contributor, he improved Kafka integration and robustness in the widely used MassTransit .NET framework, including custom serializer support and transport reliability fixes. He pairs a master’s degree in Computer Science and Cybernetics with a habit of shipping pragmatic solutions that anticipate edge cases in distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Cybernetics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Cybernetics at Kamyanets-Podilskyy Ivan Ohienko National UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science and Cybernetics, Master's degree Computer Science and Cybernetics at Kamyanets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko National University
English, Ukrainian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
messaging10
net10
kafka10
dotnet10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
distributed-systems9
rabbitmq9
unit-testing8
xml6
masstransit6
autofac6
baseclass6
signalr6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MassTransit/MassTransit
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Distributed Application Framework for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:155 reviews, 7 commits, 208 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Denys contributed to the MassTransit framework, primarily focusing on improving the Kafka integration. Their work included protecting against null values in critical producer methods, implementing changes to allow custom serializers, and removing duplicated tests. They also addressed a dependency issue in the receive transport, waiting for task completion before stopping the agent.
azure-service-busdotnetmasstransitdistributed-applicationc-sharp
NooNameR/Jellyfin.Plugin.LocalPosters
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:34 releases, 12 PRs, 266 pushes in 1 month
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