Dimitri Gnidash
Senior Python Engineer Consultant Founder at Lights On Software
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDimitri Gnidash is a seasoned senior Python engineer, consultant, and founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling production systems since 2005. As founder of Lights On Software he has delivered large, mission-critical Python applications and led teams to optimize performance—once cutting response times for a high-traffic property from 1200ms to 400ms. He combines deep backend expertise (Python, Celery, Django, Hadoop/Storm) with practical product delivery skills, having run projects for clients like Ecobee, the Canadian Olympic Committee, and Wave Accounting. Comfortable jumping into varied tech stacks, he has also led ML-informed recommendation work and operationalized real-time and batch pipelines. Known for instituting disciplined practices—TDD, CI, code review—and for pragmatic architecture choices that control cost and complexity, he blends entrepreneurial ownership with proven execution. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs startup agility with enterprise-grade delivery.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (46)
resnet10
stable-diffusion9
accelerator9
metal9
low-level-programming8
mistral8
rds-postgres8
llama8
llm8
grove7
django-templates6
django-models6
django-forms6
django6
tencent-cloud5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ahgl/ahgl-site
Jan 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:224 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
web-site
FreckleIOT/kong
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Deploys Kong API gateway in AWS using a Network Load Balancer backed by Postgres RDS
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 24 days
api-gatewaykong-pluginnetwork-load-balancerbackedaws
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