Dmitry Khapilin is a Production Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently improving ML training infrastructure at Meta. He has a strong track record of making critical backend services—search, payments, and data pipelines—more reliable, performant, and fault-tolerant at companies like Uber, Ozon.ru and Meta. Dmitry combines systems-level thinking with practical implementation skills across Java, C#, Python and cloud platforms, and has driven architecture and migration efforts as a solution architect. He also contributes to open-source (notably improving SolrNet’s cloud testing and replica-selection robustness), reflecting a focus on stability and correctness that often shows up behind the scenes. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, he brings deep experience in observability, data correctness, and operationalizing complex services under strict SLAs.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium 28 (with specialized IT classes)
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Vyatka State University of Humanities
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 5 days
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily focused on improving the testing of the SolrNet client, specifically for cloud-based Solr instances with Zookeeper. Their work involved fixing test failures and adding new test cases to validate the functionality of the collections admin API. The user also made adjustments to the core SolrNet cloud operations and state management, enhancing the robustness and reliability of replica selection within the Solr cloud environment. This indicates an effort to improve the stability and reliability of the library.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.