Dmitry Buzdin is a seasoned fintech technology leader and founder with 14 years of hands-on engineering experience and over 20 years of industry involvement, now serving as VP of Engineering in Riga. He has repeatedly built greenfield core banking, payments hubs and SoftPOS products from zero to market, driving acquisitions through reusable, scalable codebases and technical go-to-market support. As a former CTO and founder of cloud-native banking platforms, he blends deep architecture skills (ledger, KYC/KYB, card issuance) with practical cloud-native and Kubernetes expertise. Dmitry has led large distributed teams and high-throughput systems at Ericsson and major banks, and helped establish the Baltic Java community and Riga Dev Days as regional tech pillars. He contributes to open-source Java tooling—having fixed compatibility and test-suite issues in Dozer mapper—and consistently focuses on production-grade reliability and regulatory compliance. Known for turning complex regulatory and performance constraints into pragmatic engineering roadmaps, he combines product vision with tactical delivery.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
Dozer is a Java Bean to Java Bean mapper that recursively copies data from one object to another.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:75 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily focused on fixing build issues and updating test code to be compatible with Java 7 and OpenJDK7. They also made changes related to the migration of sourceforge artifacts to github. Additionally, the user was involved in refactoring and improving the codebase, including handling of proxy objects and updating copyrights. They added several new test cases and refactored existing ones.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 days
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