Dimitrios Lisenko
Senior Software Developer at Cloud 66
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDimitrios Lisenko is a Senior Software Developer based in London with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable systems at Cloud 66. Trained as a physicist at Imperial College London, he pivoted into software engineering and self-taught much of a CS curriculum in under a year, demonstrating fast learning and deep curiosity. Comfortable in low-level C++ and Linux environments (he once installed Arch from scratch), he combines systems thinking with pragmatic engineering. His open-source work includes improving test coverage for the widely used octokit.rb GitHub API client, focusing on caching and test automation. Outside of code he plays guitar and drums and practices martial arts and weightlifting, hobbies that reflect his discipline and creative problem-solving. Colleagues find him approachable and eager to form new professional connections, often using alternative name spellings (Dima Lyssenko) across communities.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at Imperial College London
English, Russian, Greek
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Github Skills (7)
ruby10
octokit10
testing10
sdk9
github-api9
vcr8
github8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
octokit/octokit.rb
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 PR, 3 comments, 1 issue in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dimitrios primarily focused on adding and improving test coverage for the Octokit Ruby library. They implemented tests specifically for caching mechanisms using Faraday::HttpCache, ensuring that requests were correctly cached and that subsequent requests used the cache. They also modified the test setup, including the configuration of test environment variables to prevent conflicts when running the tests.
apioctokit-rbsdkruby
cloud66-samples/health-check
Jun 2020 - May 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 10 months
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