Dmitry Vinnik is a Lead Developer Advocate and engineering leader with 10+ years building developer platforms, scaling open-source communities, and leading cross-functional teams at Meta. He combines deep technical judgment in platform architecture and API design with a knack for developer experience and technical storytelling, having produced 45+ videos, 40+ articles, and 32+ talks across 89+ global events. At Meta he built the company’s first developer-education flywheel—turning open source projects like PyTorch and React Native into talent and adoption engines—and launched canonical onboarding tracks such as the WhatsApp Business Platform certification. He mentors senior engineers, drives CI/CD and reliability practices for tier-1 developer services, and ships AI-powered side projects using modern LLMs. Outside work he curates large resource hubs for DevRel and engineering leaders and maintains an active public presence through speaking, writing, and open source.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Medicine, Medicine at Siberian State Medical University
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Associate of Science (A.S.) Bioinformatics, Associate of Science (A.S.) Bioinformatics at Langara College
Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics at Simon Fraser University
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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Dmitry Vinnik - Software Engineering Manager, AI ML at Meta