Dmitriy Safonov Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Fair Compute is democratizing access to AI compute for small startups and individual researchers. I helped to bootstrap the project, working on backend infrastructure and server design.Notable achievements: - Designed a server-client protocol and API for the MVP.- Reduced build times 5x by using efficient Rust compiler settings and CI caching.

Moscow, Russia

Yandex is one of the largest Russian tech companies which has products ranging from search engine and analytics to ride-sharing and delivery apps. I worked on the internal cloud infrastructure, building a company-wide platform for software deployment and network configuration, inspired by Kubernetes but with our specific requirements in mind.Notable achievements:- Designed and implemented internal company-wide services for managing dynamic DNS configurations and TLS certificates.- Created a fault-tolerant distributed system with support for rollbacks, managing integration with external platforms.

Moscow

Cloud Infrastructure

Moscow, Russian Federation

I was hired as a contractor on an internal R&D project for 3D-scanning and computer vision. I developed micro-services in Python and Go, and managed the build and deployment pipelines.Notable achievements:- Designed the MVP architecture.- Implemented reproducible builds using Docker.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Kaspersky is one of the world's leading antivirus and network security companies. I worked on the fraud prevention service deployed in multiple banks. Initially I was responsible for QA automation and site reliability, and then transitioned into backend development and deployment infrastructure.Notable achievements:- Implemented robust overnight end-to-end regression testing on real mobile devices using Python+Selenium.- Implemented automated load-testing of critical points of the product.- Significantly improved performance of multiple web-services by rewriting them from Python2+Twisted to Python3+asyncio.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Our team worked on developing and certifying firmware for a large microcontroller manufacturer, implementing support for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard (low-rate wireless networks for IoT devices, such as ZigBee/ZHA/RF4CE). I developed the framework that orchestrated running certification tests for multi-device configurations.Notable achievements:- Reduced test runtime 3x by completely redesigning and rewriting the hardware testing framework, eliminating frequent crashes and hangups.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Reasoning Mind was a non-profit organization developing interactive educational software for US schools. I was responsible for managing a team of several dozen people that implemented math curriculum. I also developed and documented software to automate our processes.Notable achievements:- Automated text-to-speech generation for thousands of study materials.- Integrated Jira with SVN to automate project build and deployment.- Managed the complete development of multiple math courses, from course design with teachers, to implementation in Flash, and deployment to schools and CDNs.

Master'S Degree, Information Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics