Dmitry Sagalovskiy
Co Founder at Grist Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitry Sagalovskiy is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 11+ years of experience co-founding and leading Grist Labs, where he drives product and engineering efforts to evolve spreadsheets into a more capable, user-friendly document platform. His background spans top-tier engineering roles at Google and Hudson River Trading, blending rigorous CS training from Harvard (M.S.) with a mathematician’s mindset from a BA in Mathematics. As a full-stack contributor to the notable open-source grist-core project, he has shipped UI improvements, form-based workflows, access rules, and performance optimizations such as faster Excel exports and schema-editing safeguards. Dmitry pairs deep technical craftsmanship with product sensibility and community-mindedness, reflected in long-term volunteer leadership at New York Math Circle. He’s comfortable both designing infrastructure-level features and refining UX details that make complex data tools approachable.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Brooklyn Technical High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics at Harvard University
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
back-end-development10
typescript10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
ux-design9
react9
user-experience9
user-interface8
sql8
websocket8
interface-design8
ui-design8
css7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gristlabs/grist-core
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Grist is the evolution of spreadsheets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:152 reviews, 201 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry made significant contributions to the Grist core codebase, demonstrating skills in both front-end and back-end development. They worked on implementing and enhancing user interfaces and improved the user experience of various features like the Access Rules page, document settings, and form-based workflows. Additionally, they implemented the infrastructure and supporting logic for new features such as a table-wide rule to handle schema editing, improving the performance of Excel exports.
evolutiondatabasedata-importspreadsheetspreadsheets
gristlabs/aws-lambda-upload
Jun 2017 - Jun 2022
Package and upload an AWS lambda with its minimal dependencies
Contributions:35 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 5 years
dependenciesserverlessaws-lambdaawslambda
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