Dmitry Kazennov is a Senior Backend Engineer specializing in .NET who blends legacy system stability with cloud-native scalability across GCP and Azure. Over 7+ years he has driven monolith-to-microservice modernizations, built CDC-based real-time pipelines, and sustained business-critical CRM services with 99.9% uptime. He’s hands-on across .NET 8/9, C#, TypeScript, SQL Server/Postgres, Redis, Docker, gRPC and has production experience deploying to Cloud Run and Pub/Sub. Dmitry contributes to Microsoft’s WinForms project, improving test coverage and fixing accessibility and memory-leak issues—an uncommon open-source foothold for a backend engineer. Holding a PhD in analytic philosophy, he applies rigorous logical frameworks to system architecture and is now expanding into MLOps and data science. Based in Tbilisi and multilingual in finance and banking domains, he also authors published non-fiction, reflecting a rare mix of technical depth and long-form analytical thinking.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of law, Russian civil law and environmental law, Master of law, Russian civil law and environmental law at Российский государственный университет правосудия
PhD in analytic philosophy (thesis on transhumanism, philosophy of science and A.I.), Philosophy, PhD in analytic philosophy (thesis on transhumanism, philosophy of science and A.I.), Philosophy at Саратовский Государственный Университет им. Н.Г. Чернышевского
Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:133 reviews, 13 commits, 19 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the Windows Forms (.NET) framework, which involved identifying and fixing bugs. They implemented several unit tests, addressing issues related to accessibility features, like the announcement of checkbox states in ListViewItem and fixes related to memory leaks within TabPage and ToolStrip elements. The user's work directly involved modifying existing test code and adding new tests to cover edge cases and ensure proper functionality.
Windows Forms is a .NET UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
Contributions:170 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 2 months
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