Dmitry Shmakov
Senior Software Engineer at Founder Institute
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDmitry Shmakov is a Senior Software Engineer and product-minded technologist with 11 years of experience building user-centric, scalable web applications from first-proof prototypes to production systems. He combines hands-on engineering (React/Node/Postgres/AWS) with product strategy and team-building, having scaled thelighthouse.us from a no-tech offering to a seed-stage SaaS adopted by companies like Uber and MongoDB and later boosted operational metrics at Unqork through performance and process improvements. Known for pragmatic leadership, he improves developer velocity and customer outcomes by aligning roadmaps, establishing observability, and mentoring engineers. A lifelong tinkerer—he wrote his first program from a 5-inch floppy—Dmitry also mentors founders and early engineers and speaks about cross-functional communication and career navigation.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (BA) English Language and Literature at Uzbek State University of World LanguagesProduct management, Product management at General AssemblyCertificate Computer Software Engineering, Certificate Computer Software Engineering at Fullstack Academy
Russian, English, French
Github Skills (200)
container-management10
command-line-interface10
automation10
k8s10
ecosystem10
hashicorp10
service-discovery10
vault10
aws-autoscaling10
audit10
azure-resource-manager10
cattle10
terragrunt10
amazon10
jupyterhub10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
Dmitry1987/vault-chrome-extension
Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
Attempt in creating chrome extension for Hashicorp Vault
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
hashicorp-vaultvaultchromehashicorpchrome-extension
Dmitry1987/ec2list
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 7 pushes in 7 months
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