Dmitry Kropachev
Development Team Lead at ScyllaDB
Las Terrenas, Samaná, Dominican Republic
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RockstarDmitry Kropachev is a Development Team Lead and seasoned backend engineer with over a decade of experience in DevOps, Linux administration, and low-level networking, and more than six years working with cloud platforms and Kubernetes. He is fluent in Go, Python, and Java, with additional experience across JavaScript, C#, C and Rust, and a practical year of work integrating blockchain (Polygon) into microservices at Reddit. Dmitry combines hands-on operational focus—observable systems, structured logging, metrics and distributed tracing—with developer productivity, being an early adopter of AI coding agents and a contributor to 30+ open-source projects including operational fixes for the well-known ScyllaDB Kubernetes operator. He has led API gateway and cloud-native transformations at TUI and driven infrastructure testing and automation at ScyllaDB and F5, consistently shipping pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Based in Las Terrenas, he brings a structured, results-driven mindset and a knack for solving hard operational problems that bridge development and SRE concerns.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
kubernetes-operator10
go10
scylla10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
api-design8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
scylladb/scylla-operator
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
The Kubernetes Operator for ScyllaDB
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry contributed to the ScyllaDB Operator by implementing features related to volume mounts and arguments passed to the Scylla containers. They also addressed issues related to the sidecar, ensuring it respected node status during synchronization and made the intensity parameter a float on the manager side for repair tasks. The contributions included fixing a preStop hook and modifying the logging level for cluster status updates, indicating a focus on operational aspects.
k8s-operatoroperatorscylladbk8skubernetes
dkropachev/scylla-cluster-tests
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
Tests for Scylla Clusters
Contributions:3303 pushes, 743 branches in 4 years 5 months
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