Dmitriy Sorokin
Chief Information Security Officer (Russia)
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitriy Sorokin is a seasoned information security leader with 8+ years of focused experience across telecommunications, consultancy, FMCG and enterprise risk, now serving as Chief Information Security Officer for PepsiCo Russia. He has driven security transformation, SOC modernization and compliance programs (ISO27001, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOX) at regional and global scale, combining hands-on SIEM, SECaaS and vulnerability management expertise with program-level governance. Prior roles at Philip Morris, EY and MTS showcase his ability to translate technical controls into measurable KPIs, BCP/DR plans and effective SecDevOps practices. Dmitriy pairs deep telecom operations knowledge (VAS, BSS/OSS) with advisory experience in cloud, AI/ML and digital strategy, enabling pragmatic risk reduction in complex environments. An engineer by training, he also contributes to open-source back-end work—helping modernize Apache Ignite by replacing deprecated Java APIs and improving JVM pause observability—illustrating his habit of solving low-level reliability problems as part of broader security objectives.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Engineer's degree Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Satbayev UniversityInformation Security Management, Information Security Management at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian, English
Github Skills (16)
apache-ignite10
javas10
caching10
jvm10
disk-cache10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
object-cache10
in-memory10
java10
database9
multithreading9
data-structure9
data-structures9
databases9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/ignite
Dec 2017 - Apr 2020
Apache Ignite
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 26 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dmitriy contributed to the Apache Ignite project by removing usages of `sun.misc.Cleaner`, a class that is deprecated in newer versions of Java, and replacing it with Java 9's `java.lang.ref.Cleaner`. They also addressed long JVM pause detection and added MXBean interfaces and implementations to observe long JVM pauses. Furthermore, the user worked on handling critical failures within the project, and contributed to pages recycling and reusing.
data-management-platformin-memory-databasedistributed-sql-databaseapache-ignitenetwork-client
x-kreator/ignite
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
Mirror of Apache Ignite
Contributions:9 PRs, 439 pushes, 76 branches in 3 years 9 months
apache-igniteapachebig-dataignitejava
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