Dmitri Gaskin
- Role
- Co-founder Director, Discovery at Branch
- Location
- Redwood City, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Co-founder Director, Discovery
Jun 2014 — Present
I\'ve worn a number of hats at Branch. Most recently, I lead the Discovery team, working to build a product to search for content inside of apps. Director, Discovery- Working with product and business stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities - Architecting and implementing a system to extract, and index app content - Expanding team and decomposing into multiple subteams - Working with engineers on growth and career progress - Hiring many engineers & engineering leaders Engineering Lead, Data Platform- Rescued a team in trouble, retaining all engineers and keeping stakeholders happy - Defined team mission, scope, and products in collaboration with stakeholders across the company - Implemented Airflow - Re-architected and re-implemented our data warehousing tool, going from multiple daily pagers to zero incidents in months - Designed and built a build process for Spark jobs - Introduced the Bazel build tool, improving the team\'s productivity and agility - Participated in hiring several engineers and ultimately the head of the Data Platform team Tech Lead, Ads- Worked in close collaboration with PMs to define and scope out an initial ads product - Led the engineering team in implementation of our ads product - Architected integration with Facebook\'s MMP program Tech Lead, Platform- Identified & solved scaling bottlenecks - Migrated from monolith to microservices; migrated to key/value databases and message queues - Implemented observability and instrumentation tools - Took part in on-call rotation Founding Engineer- Built initial versions of many components used at Branch today - Designed (and continue to design) overall system architecture - Did everything from server provisioning to front-end dashboards Technologies: Java, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, Clojure, Spark, Flink, Airflow, Dropwizard, Bazel, Kubernetes, AWS, FoundationDB, Aerospike, Redis, Postgres, Kafka, Docker, Ansible, React, and many many spreadsheets
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