Dmitry Monakhov
Software Engineer at poolside
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDmitry Monakhov is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of deep Linux kernel, filesystem and HPC experience, now focused on LLM training and GPU/interconnect optimization at Poolside.ai in Berlin. His background includes long-running kernel and Ext4-fs work—authoring online defragmentation and coordinating OpenVZ integrations—plus storage and block-layer design for container and VM platforms. He has driven accelerated platform efforts at AWS and high-performance networking (InfiniBand) and GPU stacks across Yandex and Virtuozzo, bridging low-level kernel code with large-scale compute infrastructure. Known for pragmatic systems thinking, he combines kernel-level precision with practical optimizations for ML training pipelines, a mix that’s uncommon among ML infrastructure engineers.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Github Skills (200)
gbm10
xgboost10
python10
testing10
test-framework10
regression10
gpu10
serve10
k8s10
subsystem10
computation10
r10
charts10
big-data10
linux10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dmonakhov/fio
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021
Flexible I/O Tester
Contributions:18 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 6 months
testingflexible
dmonakhov/avocado
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:71 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 5 months
testingtesting-toolstest-automationtest-framework
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