Iurii Pliner is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with over 13 years of experience designing and scaling backend systems, and more than seven years in senior engineering leadership roles. He has led the build of a production banking platform at ANNA Money, owning card services, UK and international payments, and the shared infrastructure used across the backend engineering organisation. Previously he steered a major migration to microservices and drove revenue-impacting core backend re‑architectures at Kontur, while also influencing company-wide tooling and logging strategies. An active open-source maintainer since 2015, he runs EasyNetQ (27M+ NuGet downloads) and contributes to key projects like aiopg and the rabbitmq .NET client, reflecting deep expertise in messaging and database integration. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic technical leader who pairs hands-on refactoring and CI/CD improvements with strategic initiatives that accelerate product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Ural State University named after A.M.Gorky
Contributions:92 releases, 286 reviews, 595 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Iurii primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the codebase, specifically addressing concurrency issues within the `DefaultConsumerErrorStrategy.cs` file. They also implemented a new `RandomClusterHostSelectionStrategy.cs` with associated tests, extending the EasyNetQ functionality. Furthermore, the user modified code related to message handling and queue management.
aiopg is a library for accessing a PostgreSQL database from the asyncio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:3 releases, 36 reviews, 52 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Iurii contributed significantly to the `aiopg` library, focusing on improving the codebase and build processes. They implemented changes to support newer Python versions, updated dependencies, and refactored CI/CD configurations using tools like Travis CI and GitHub Actions. The user also addressed bugs, improved connection management, and released new versions of the library. They demonstrated an understanding of both backend development and the associated build and deployment processes.
pythonpostgresql-databaseasynciosqlalchemyaiopg
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Iurii Pliner - Principal Software Engineer at ANNA Money