Dmitry Safonov
Toronto · Ontario ·
dmitry@dsafonov.com
Staff Engineer
Recent Experience
Staff Engineer
Owner.com
Helping build and optimize platform & infrastructure!
October 2023 - Present
Staff Engineer
GlossGenius
Moved the entire infrastructure from Heroku to AWS while it was running, saved $700K/yr on SMS costs, and fixed a lot of memory leaks
October 2021 - October 2023
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
Reporting and Campaign Management, Funnel Optimization @ Amazon Advertising
March 2020 - October 2021
Senior Software Engineer
Index Exchange
Worked on an agile team to improve a programmatic ad exchange: unlocking revenue, improving efficiency, designing key software infrastructure that can produce timely responses to billions of requests per day
May 2019 - March 2020
Programmer Analyst
Environics Analytics
Optimized algorithms and crunched data, reduced runtimes by orders of magnitude and fought the good fight against heap contention
March 2016 - May 2019
Software Developer
Tucows
Helped serve up the backend of the world's second largest domain registrar, but first in my heart
November 2014 - March 2016
Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Mathematics
Crestwood Preparatory College
Ontario Secondary School Diploma
Skills
Programming Languages & Tools
Values
- Communication
- Efficiency
- Architectural Simplicity
- Curiosity