Dmytro Shapovalov
Head Of Infrastructure & Hardware Engineering at Cossack Labs
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolDmytro Shapovalov is a seasoned infrastructure and hardware engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on experience in Unix system administration, high-load reliable systems design, and infrastructure security, now heading Infrastructure & Hardware Engineering at Cossack Labs. He blends deep low-level technical skills (software development since 1994) with operational leadership, having founded and scaled an ISP that delivered the largest fiber network in his city and pioneered services like IPoE and IPTV. At Cossack Labs he contributes to open-source security tooling—improving Docker builds and deployment flows for the Acra database security suite—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on performance, reliability, and container footprint reduction. Based in Kyiv, he has a track record of restoring and normalizing IT operations in complex environments and turning research-grade security features into production-ready infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Process Control System, Master's degree, Process Control System at East Ukrainian National University
Украинский, Русский, Английский
Github Skills (16)
docker10
docker-compose10
makefile10
containerization10
dockers10
cryptography9
cicd9
go9
security8
encryption8
postgresql7
mariadb7
database7
databases7
bash7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cossacklabs/acra
Feb 2018 - Feb 2022
Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 45 commits, 51 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Dmytro primarily contributed to the project by refactoring the Docker image building process, reducing container sizes, and adding build targets within the Makefile. They implemented multi-stage builds for the Docker images, including `acraserver`, `acraproxy`, and key generation utilities. Further contributions involved creating and integrating various Docker Compose files to streamline application deployment across different database setups. The user also added and configured SSL certificates and updated database versions.
proxydatabase-proxydjangoencryption-serverintrusion-detection
cossacklabs/djangoproject.com
Sep 2018 - Dec 2021
Acra-protected djangoproject.com sample project
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 3 months
cryptographypythonprotecteddjangoprojectdjango
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