Dmitriy Shirchenko
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitriy Shirchenko is a Staff Software Engineer in Berkeley with 11 years of experience building backend infrastructure and platform tooling, primarily in Go and distributed systems. At Uber since 2014 he has driven RPC and Go platform work, routing and microservice libraries, and earlier helped scale real-time marketplace and deployment systems including Apache Aurora/Mesos. He contributes to well-known open-source projects such as uber-go/fx—adding dependency-graph validation and structured logging—and has a track record of improving observability and reliability in core frameworks. His background spans Python and AWS-based backend systems from The Washington Post to search and computer-vision work at A9/SnapTell, reflecting a blend of production-grade engineering and research-minded problem solving. Collected expertise in health checks, webhook-based eventing, and logging APIs signals a practical focus on operability that complements his deep platform experience.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Engineering Mathematics and Statistics, BS, Engineering Mathematics and Statistics at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (24)
unit-testing10
mesos10
python10
scripting10
testing10
health-check10
aurora10
script10
go10
sh10
web-framework10
test-integration10
logging10
shell10
test-unit10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uber-go/fx
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
A dependency injection based application framework for Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 47 reviews, 53 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Dmitriy primarily focused on enhancing the `uber-go/fx` framework, a dependency injection framework for Go applications. Their work included implementing a `ValidateApp` function to validate dependency graphs, adding structured logging with a Zap logger, and refining the logging API for better event handling. They also released several versions of the framework and made minor adjustments related to logging and testing. The commits show a focus on core framework functionality and improving observability.
golanginjectionframeworkgodependency-injection
apache/aurora
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Apache Aurora - A Mesos framework for long-running services, cron jobs, and ad-hoc jobs
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dmitriy contributed to the improvement of the Apache Aurora framework by adding test coverage, deleting unused functions, and addressing bugs related to scheduler client interactions. They enhanced the system by adding support for shell command-based health checks, refactoring health check configurations, and exposing DSL-defined variables to shell health checkers. Furthermore, the user modified the system to switch from launchTask to acceptOffers and capture the health check output. They also integrated webhook functionality to POST events, enhancing the system's event notification capabilities and reliability.
auroracron-jobsapachemesos-frameworklong
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