Konstantin Erman
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKonstantin Erman is a Principal Software Engineer with over 20 years of experience building scalable developer tooling and high-performance systems, currently driving Bazel-based build transformations at Salesforce for large, multi-language codebases. He combines deep expertise in .NET, C#, Visual Studio, and build systems—having cut build times from hours to minutes and enabled a 500% productivity gain by integrating Bazel with Visual Studio. A proven DevOps architect, he has migrated entire infrastructures to cloud and modern CI/CD (TeamCity, Octopus, Azure) and led source control transitions without data loss. Konstantin also contributes to open-source tooling, notably modernizing the Serilog Elasticsearch sink for newer Elasticsearch clients, reflecting a pragmatic focus on compatibility and long-term maintainability. Trained at Moscow State University, he pairs strong systems architecture skills with a hands-on approach to mentoring and developer enablement.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Moscow State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (14)
amazon-elasticsearch10
dependency-management10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
csharp10
aws-elasticsearch10
serilog10
nest10
dotnet-core10
elasticsearch-api10
netframework10
build-process9
nuget9
testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
serilog-contrib/serilog-sinks-elasticsearch
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
A Serilog sink that writes events to Elasticsearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 11 PRs, 24 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin primarily focused on updating the Serilog Elasticsearch sink to be compatible with newer versions of dependencies, especially Elasticsearch. They rebuilt the sink to avoid binding redirects and fixed package references across multiple project files, including net40 projects. They also updated the sink to be compatible with Elasticsearch.Net and NEST 2.02. This included code adjustments and refactoring to accommodate breaking changes and address potential test failures.
sinkeventsserilog-sinkfluentdlogging
konste/TotalUninstaller
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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