Dmitry Kartsev
Principal Software Engineer - OpenShift Service Mesh (Istio) at Red Hat
Israel
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Top SchoolDmitry Kartsev is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing cloud-native platforms, currently optimizing Istio and OpenShift Service Mesh at Red Hat. He combines deep Golang expertise with practical distributed-systems design—extending Kubernetes via controllers, device plugins, and robust gRPC/REST APIs—to deliver scalable, secure enterprise services. His background spans platform leadership at Intel (cloud Kubernetes and MLOps SaaS) and hands-on DevOps/consulting roles where he implemented service mesh, Kafka-based eventing, and CI/CD automation. Dmitry is an active open-source contributor who bridges community-driven projects with commercial product requirements, and he often focuses on pragmatic performance and security improvements such as mTLS and SSO. Based in Israel, he brings a rare mix of low-level systems craftsmanship and team leadership that drives production-ready infrastructure at scale.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Practical Engineering Practical software engineer, Practical Engineering Practical software engineer at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Braude Academic College
Russian, English, Hebrew
Github Skills (138)
api-management10
hat10
spiffe10
security10
python-client10
consul10
mlops10
istio10
kubebuilder10
microservices10
k8s10
operator10
service-mesh10
catalog10
kubernetes-operator10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cnvrg/metagpu
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
K8s device plugin for GPU sharing
Contributions:349 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 months
gpu-accelerationgpusharingk8sdevice-plugin
AccessibleAI/cnvrgio-operator
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
cnvrg operator for deploying cnvrg mlops stack
Contributions:11 reviews, 614 commits, 72 PRs in 10 months
deployingkubernetesmlopsoperator
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