Dmitry Merkushin
Mexico City
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitry Merkushin is a seasoned PHP backend engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms and integrations across media, advertising, and government projects. Zend and Oracle-certified, he has led small teams and delivered microservices for cross-platform publishing and analytics at TheSoul Publishing and contributed backend improvements to Automattic’s widely used Sensei LMS. He excels at integrations with third-party APIs (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Roku, banking systems) and performance-focused architecture such as job queues, background processing, and storage optimizations. Based in Mexico City, he pairs a pragmatic engineering style (NeoVim and Mac enthusiast) with a strong open-source mindset and a proven track record of shipping production-critical features for high-traffic systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Automated Information Processing and Management Systems, Specialist, Automated Information Processing and Management Systems at Kazan National Research Technological UniversityTranslator in the Field of Professional Communication, Translator in the Field of Professional Communication at ВШИЯ «Лингва» ИДПО ФГБОУ ВПО «КНИТУ»
English, German, Russian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
wordpress10
php10
apidoc9
database-design9
api9
nested6
error-handling6
zend-framework6
sorting6
ruby6
mysql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/sensei
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Sensei LMS - Online Courses, Quizzes, & Learning
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 731 reviews, 579 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily contributed to the back-end development of the project, focusing on improving the core functionality. They implemented features to handle user roles and to configure course URLs, made changes in quiz and lesson pages as well as modified data models related to the database, and also they made fixes regarding email sending. They also worked on updating the analysis reports.
wordpressphpsenseisensei-lmsplugin
merkushin/WPAL
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
WordPress Abstraction Layer
Contributions:8 PRs, 18 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 11 months
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