Dmitriy Kunitskiy
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
San Bruno, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitriy Kunitskiy is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale data and marketplace systems, currently at Databricks after leadership roles at Roblox and Lyft. He specializes in data platform engineering—lineage, governance, discovery—and has driven cross-language schema tooling and high-throughput contracts that improved developer velocity and data trust. Dmitriy led the team behind the widely used Amundsen metadata project, contributing backend refactors, dependency upgrades, and enhanced search and feature models. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and manager, he repeatedly delivers pragmatic, production-grade solutions for complex distributed systems. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and combines formal academic training with hands-on open-source impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Irvine
Russian, English
Github Skills (13)
marshmallow10
python10
data-engineering10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
api8
metadata8
flask8
flask-ask8
api-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
amundsen-io/amundsen
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 261 reviews, 33 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Dmitriy primarily contributed to the Amundsen metadata application by addressing dependencies, refactoring code, and upgrading the codebase. They updated and switched various dependencies like marshmallow, marshmallow3-annotations and related packages in `common/setup.py` and other modules. The user also worked on feature models by adding and updating databuilder models and related tests. Furthermore, they performed upgrades of core components and enhanced feature tags within the search functionality.
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dkunitsk/amundsen
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Contributions:37 pushes, 17 branches in 8 months
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