Dmitrii Kalashnik
QA Team Lead Dataplane Team Lead
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Top SchoolDmitrii Kalashnik is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience specializing in QA automation, DevOps, and high-performance dataplane engineering for carrier-grade telco solutions. Based in Tbilisi, he currently leads both Dataplane and QA teams at Travelping, driving architecture and delivery of Kubernetes-native VPP controllers, custom user-plane plugins, and organization-wide test automation and CI/CD infrastructure. He combines hands-on technical ownership—building network test tools and scalable QA environments—with people leadership, mentoring multidisciplinary teams from design through release validation. Dmitrii’s background at Mirantis sharpened his DevOps and cloud-native skills, enabling him to align product strategy with robust, production-ready validation pipelines. Notably, he blends low-level dataplane development with automated testing practices, ensuring observability and reliability in complex telco deployments.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Computer Science, Specialist Computer Science at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (114)
pagerduty10
monitoring9
prometheus-alertmanager9
heat9
notification-center9
deduplication9
slack9
fuel9
prometheus-exporter8
dashboard8
opsgenie8
prometheus8
mysql8
database-access8
golang7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dkalashnik/stacklight-pytest
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:83 commits, 69 PRs, 74 pushes in 1 year 4 months
testingpythonintegration-testspytest
salt-formulas/salt-formula-fluentd
Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:9 commits in 9 months
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