Dmitriy Samovskiy

Software Engineer

Chicago, Illinois, United States26 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in backend development and cloud computing.
Proven track record in architecting scalable network solutions.
Strong experience in developing automation for enterprise services.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused engineer with expertise in SaaS and Networking solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentCloud ComputingNetwork Architecture

Other Skills

golanggrpcmongodbredisawsobservabilitydatadogIPsecRESTful APIPythonLinuxRubyRuby on RailsScalabilityDevOps

About

I help companies take their engineering platforms to the next level, by driving adoption of modern approaches and best practices in the following areas: * Engineering Effectiveness - “Develop code and ship product features safely and efficiently, at scale” * Production Readiness - “Adopt shareable and reusable runtime patterns, make running all services simple, straightforward and uniform” * Operational Excellence - “Build tooling to help engineering teams be responsible owners of their services in production”

Experience

Alphasense

Software Engineer

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos

On a break

Software Engineer

Dec 2024 – Aug 2025 · 8 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Remote

After almost 6 years, I resigned from Coinbase at the end of 2024. I am currently on a break - recharging, working on a couple of personal projects and figuring out what I want to do next.

Mobilunity

Technical Advisor

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

Mar 2019 – Dec 2024 · 5 yrs 9 mos

workflow orchestration (Temporal, Cadence)
background jobs processing
golang, grpc, mongodb, redis, aws
observability, datadog
maintainer of the internal services framework (golang)

golanggrpcmongodbredisawsobservability+3

Yelp

Senior Software Engineer, Reliability and Observability

Jan 2015 – Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Morningstar

Senior Architect

Jun 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Architect and build automation for enterprise core services: in-memory data grid, caching, messaging, application runtime metrics.
Building application-level runtime events tracking system on top of Graphite (python).

Cohesiveft

Lead Engineer, VPN-Cubed

Apr 2007 – Jun 2012 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Architected and implemented new functionality for VPN-Cubed, virtual network overlay for the inter-cloud and datacenter-to-cloud connectivity, on top of industry standard IPsec protocol.
Oversaw network design and technical validation for large proof-of-concept, pre-sales and implementation projects.
Designed and implemented RESTful API for VPN-Cubed and elasticserver.com.

Orbitz

Technical Lead, Application Engineering

Jan 2005 – Apr 2007 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Development, deployment, automation and technical operations of Air Fare Search server farms (1,000+ servers), which served as air fare backends for multiple web and non-web properties of one of the world's biggest travel businesses.
Co-authored a scalable internal application hosting platform which included processing of various industry data feeds, multi-tier aggregation of runtime status information, near-realtime query statistics across all farms, end-to-end distributed monitoring and alarming - all written in Python.

United airlines

Systems Engineer

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr

As a member of Infrastructure Engineering team, responsible for technical operations of multiple firewall environments, Internet services (DNS resolution, mail relaying, HTTP proxying, antivirus), internal global DNS infrastructure.

Shure incorporated

Systems Administrator

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs

Systems administration and support for Linux, HP-UX and Windows servers and workstations, Oracle database servers on Linux and Windows, network, various engineering applications. Developed various web apps for internal workflows and task automation.