Illya Dus
Engineering Manager Platform Developer Productivity
Minsk, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolIllya Dus is an engineering leader with nine years of experience building platform engineering and developer productivity teams that enable organizations to ship software faster and more reliably. Currently an Engineering Manager at IBM, he focuses on Internal Developer Platforms, CI/CD automation, scalable infrastructure and engineering standards that reduce operational overhead for product teams. He has a strong SRE and DevOps background from roles at Apptio/IBM and Targetprocess, blending hands-on infrastructure development with people leadership. His open-source work includes full-stack contributions to a Kong gateway dashboard, demonstrating attention to both API/plugin compatibility and user-facing UI polish. Based in Minsk and trained in computer software engineering, Illya is passionate about measuring productivity and turning tooling gaps into reproducible, organization-wide improvements. Colleagues describe him as a builder who prefers solving systemic bottlenecks over firefighting individual incidents.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Computer Software Engineering, Specialist, Computer Software Engineering at Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science
Russian, English
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
angularjs9
apidoc9
api9
git7
html6
css5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
PGBI/kong-dashboard
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Dashboard for managing Kong gateway
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Illya primarily worked on enhancing the Kong Dashboard, a management interface for the Kong gateway. Their contributions focused on improving plugin support, particularly for newer Kong versions, and updating the UI for consistency. They implemented features to handle object-based fields and improved existing plugin functionality to support different API versions, and addressed several tests. The user also addressed a bug related to API key handling.
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illyaMs/kong-dashboard
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Dashboard for managing Kong gateway
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
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