Dmitry Ilyevsky
Engineering Lead at Stealth Startup
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitry Ilyevsky is an engineering lead and systems generalist with 16 years building compute clusters, networking fabrics, and backend infrastructure at companies including Google, Cruise, Mux, and Motorola. He brings deep hands-on experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, and low-level networking stacks, and was an early Golang adopter who contributed to Google's Borg and to prominent open-source projects like CoreDNS. Known for improving reliability and operational tooling, he’s led platform initiatives for large-scale Kubernetes compute environments and advised startups as an independent consultant. Based in Mountain View, he combines pragmatic leadership with individual contributor chops—able to ship critical bug fixes and features while architecting scalable platforms. Off the clock he’s a semi-retired alpinist turned ultra long-distance runner, a discipline that often informs his methodical, endurance-minded approach to engineering problems.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Saint-Petersburg State University
Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
route5310
nameserver10
go10
dns10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
cnc8
service-discovery7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
coredns/coredns
Sep 2018 - May 2022
CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 6 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry contributed significantly to the `coredns/coredns` project, focusing on enhancing the functionality and stability of the DNS server. They implemented features to support batch mode operations within the route53 plugin, improving record retrieval. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by fixing bugs related to wildcard support and ensuring correct handling of various characters in the DNS configuration. They also updated the AWS config and credentials setup.
dnspluginchainsdns-servercncf
apoxy-dev/apoxy-cli
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Command line interface for apoxy.dev
Contributions:4 releases, 30 reviews, 10 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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