Dmitry Kolesnikov
Senior Principal Engineer at .
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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SeniorDmitry Kolesnikov is a Senior Principal Engineer based in Helsinki with 14 years of experience designing end-to-end architectures for large-scale, high-performance systems. He blends hands-on expertise in Big Data, cloud computing, and consumer service platforms with a strong focus on system analysis and pragmatic, detail-oriented solutions. A functional-programming enthusiast fluent in Go, Scala and Erlang, Dmitry contributes to notable open-source projects such as erlcloud, improving AWS API support and cross-version compatibility for Erlang crypto. At Zalando he drives architectural direction and coordinates full product lifecycles, translating technical trade-offs into implementable actions for decision-makers. Known as an Erlang advocate, he brings creative leadership and a knack for squeezing scalability and performance from complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
erlang
Github Skills (10)
aws-apigateway10
amazon-api10
api10
ws-api10
erlang10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
aws-api-gateway-v210
error-handling8
json8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
erlcloud/erlcloud
Jan 2013 - Jun 2018
AWS APIs library for Erlang (Amazon EC2, S3, SQS, DDB, ELB and etc)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Erlang-based cloud library. Their work involved fixing bugs related to attribute retrieval and adding support for the describe_tags API. They also removed an instance specification utility and refactored code to improve API signatures, specifically for error handling. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with default configurations and enhanced the library's compatibility with different Erlang crypto versions.
ec2amazon-ec2erlangddbamazon
fogfish/golem
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
pure functional and generic programming for Go
Contributions:163 commits, 114 PRs, 207 pushes in 3 years 2 months
golangfunctional-programminggenericgeneric-programmingpure-functional
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