Summary
Semen Dubina is a senior software engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems, mobile apps, and DevOps pipelines, currently based in Tbilisi and open to opportunities in Amsterdam. He specializes in Go, modern C++, Kotlin and PHP, and has deep operational expertise in GitLab CI, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Kubernetes, Docker and Ansible to deliver fault-tolerant services at scale. Semen has led core product development and high-traffic government services, optimizing XML stream processing and containerized architectures to handle thousands of requests per minute. He pairs hands-on coding with team leadership and product-minded marketing skills (CustDev, segmentation, JTBD), enabling him to drive both technical excellence and business outcomes. A longtime Linux enthusiast (using since 2.6.17 and even building 2.4 for embedded), he brings pragmatic low-level knowledge that often surfaces in performance and reliability wins.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, non-thesis, Bachelor's degree, Physics, non-thesis at Saint Petersburg State University
Russian, English