Dmitry Sorokin
Sr. Software Engineer at Databricks
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolDmitry Sorokin is a Sr. Software Engineer based in Berlin with 12 years of experience building high-load, distributed systems and backend services. He has deep expertise in Java, Python, Kafka, Zookeeper and AWS, demonstrated by multi-year work on Zalando’s Nakadi event bus where he optimized event type caching, processing and subscription logic for production-scale messaging. Now at Databricks, he brings both hands-on engineering and prior principal-level experience to architect resilient streaming and backend components. His background ranges from kernel and low-level network drivers to leading small engineering teams and shipping billing and anti-fraud systems, showing a rare blend of systems-level depth and product-focused delivery. Colleagues value his practical optimizations for time-sensitive data and his ability to improve performance without sacrificing consistency.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics, device programming, Electronics, device programming at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
caching10
zookeeper10
back-end-development10
java10
concurrency9
subscribe9
subscriber9
performance-optimization9
management9
eventing9
manage9
algorithm6
hash6
scrollview6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/nakadi
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
A distributed event bus that implements a RESTful API abstraction on top of Kafka-like queues
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 97 reviews, 778 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily worked on back-end development tasks, with a focus on improving the caching and processing of event types within the system. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the Nakadi project's architecture, including event publishing, subscription management, and interaction with Zookeeper. The changes involved modifying core classes such as `EventTypeCache`, `EventsProcessor`, and `ZkSubscriptionClient`, to optimize performance and maintain data consistency, especially in relation to time-sensitive data.
queuesjava-8streamsmessage-passingevent-driven
zalando-nakadi/bubuku
Jul 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:22 reviews, 299 commits, 139 PRs in 6 years
monitorkafka-clusterrebalanceawskafka
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