Dmitry Lyfar
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDmitry Lyfar is an experienced engineering leader with 17 years building and scaling software teams, currently managing engineering at Canonical from Auckland. He co-founded Termius (YC W19), where as COO he transitioned the company from consultancy to a 30-person product organization, led SOC2 compliance and managed multiple engineering managers and teams. Dmitry combines hands-on technical roots—having grown an engineering org from 0 to 25 and delivered open-source infrastructure tooling—with operational expertise in security, compliance and remote-first culture. His background spans CTO and architect roles across startups, delivering cloud-hosted platforms and niche engineering solutions for enterprise and telecom clients. He holds postgraduate computer science education from Omsk State University and brings a practical blend of systems engineering, product delivery and organizational design.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Termius (W19), Termius (W19) at Y CombinatorMaster degree of Railways Power Supply Electromechanical Engineering, Master degree of Railways Power Supply Electromechanical Engineering at Omsk State Transport University (OSTU)Russia; Postgraduate Omsk; Computer Science, Russia; Postgraduate Omsk; Computer Science at Omsk State University (OSU)
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
lxd10
jupyterlab10
lxc10
api10
jupyter-notebook10
daemons10
jupyter9
criu9
notebook9
desktop-application9
linux9
virtual-machine9
jupyterlab-extension9
daemon9
docker8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dmitry-lyfar/pebble
Jul 2023 - Aug 2024
Take control of your internal daemons!
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
dmitry-lyfar/jupyterlab-desktop
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
JupyterLab desktop application, based on Electron.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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