Dmitriy Kostiuk
Docent, Senior Researcher at BSTU
Belarus
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Top SchoolDmitriy Kostiuk is a seasoned academic and senior researcher with 18 years of experience, serving as a docent at BSTU in Belarus. He combines deep research and teaching experience with practical open-source contributions, notably improving documentation for Percona's widely used PMM and Percona Toolkit projects to make database observability and command-line tooling more accessible. Dmitriy’s work emphasizes clarity and usability—rewriting guides, converting tables to option lists, and adding practical configuration examples for PostgreSQL and MySQL that help practitioners deploy and troubleshoot systems. His background suggests a rare blend of long-term academic rigor and hands-on technical communication that boosts adoption of complex database tools.
18 years of coding experience
БрГТУ
Github Skills (7)
documentation10
technical-writing10
mysql9
postgresql9
observability8
database-management8
database-tools8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
percona/pmm
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:81 commits, 103 PRs, 156 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dmitriy's primary contributions focused on updating and improving the documentation for the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) tool. These updates include adding new documentation pages for dashboards, configuration guides for PostgreSQL, and describing features like custom MySQL queries. The user's work enhances user understanding and guides users on implementing different features. They also corrected typos and improved overall readability across the documentation.
perconadatabase-monitoringobservabilitypmmdatabase
percona/percona-toolkit
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Percona Toolkit: a collection of advanced open source command-line tools.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Dmitriy's contributions focused primarily on enhancing and refining the documentation within the Percona Toolkit repository. They updated the documentation for the version-check feature, including clarifying its purpose and usage, and added details on disabling it. Furthermore, the user improved the formatting, style, and content of the documentation related to the `pt-secure-collect` tool, ensuring clarity and accuracy. These changes involved restructuring information and converting tables into option lists for better readability.
perconapercona-toolkitversion-controltoolkitdatabase
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