Dmitrii Plaksunov
Lead Software Engineer at Emerging Travel Group
Tbilisi, Georgia
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitrii Plaksunov is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of backend experience building high-throughput services for Emerging Travel Group that handle over 6 million daily requests and drive more than half the company’s traffic. He has a strong track record of shipping revenue-generating B2B products, leading a 10TB database migration, and delivering server-driven UX that cut support resolution time by 20% for a 500+ person team. Technically fluent in Python (Django, FastAPI), Go, PostgreSQL and Redis, he has improved serialization speed by 30% and optimized queries and endpoints to achieve up to 20x performance gains. Dmitrii is also an active open-source contributor—enhancing Django Ninja’s OpenAPI schema generation and router inheritance—bringing library-level rigor to production services. Based in Tbilisi with a CS degree from Moscow Aviation Institute, he combines hands-on optimization skills with product-minded architecture for global-scale mobile platforms.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (8)
rest-api10
swagger10
openapi10
python10
django10
pytest9
testing9
pydantic9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vitalik/django-ninja
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dmitrii primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the Django Ninja framework, specifically focusing on features related to OpenAPI schema generation and router inheritance. They added functionality to generate response schemas for API endpoints, integrated router inheritance capabilities, and implemented corresponding tests to validate the new features. Furthermore, the user enhanced the documentation and improved the flexibility of the API framework by incorporating model.dict() arguments.
redocpythondjangofast-asyncasync
fojetin/fojetin.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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