Dmitry Kuzmenko
Senior Software Engineer at DSR Corporation
Voronezh, Voronezh, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitry Kuzmenko is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building and maintaining backend and infrastructure software, currently based in Voronezh, Russia. He spent six years on SaltStack’s core team contributing low-level fixes and enhancements to a widely used configuration-management project, demonstrating deep familiarity with distributed systems, pyzmq, and edge cases like syndic/minion setups. At DSR Corporation he continues to apply that systems-level expertise to production-grade engineering problems, blending DevOps sensibilities with backend development. His background spans embedded systems to large-scale infrastructure, underpinned by an engineer’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Voronezh State University. Dmitry’s contributions often tackle subtle interoperability and Unicode issues, showing a preference for durable, correctness-first fixes rather than surface-level features. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who gravitates to thorny bugs that reveal system design constraints.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Engineer's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Воронежский Государственный Университет / Voronezh State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (8)
automation10
automations10
infrastructure10
python10
zeromq9
networking7
system-administration7
debian6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:109 reviews, 289 commits, 309 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry's contributions primarily focus on enhancements and bug fixes within the SaltStack codebase, dealing with infrastructure and configuration management. They addressed a progress bar failure in a minion environment behind a syndic by modifying the progress output to accommodate this setup. They also worked on improving code related to MongoDB user states, handling pyzmq with --enable-drafts, and fixing unicode-related issues. The user's work involved low-level code changes, demonstrating an understanding of SaltStack's internals and system configuration.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
DSRCorporation/salt
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
Infrastructure automation and management system
Contributions:2 PRs, 599 pushes, 540 branches in 5 years 10 months
management-systeminfrastructure-automationdevopsitilansible
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