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Yevhenii "Yev" Dytyniuk


Software engineer who has seen enough to fix things before the damage is done. Twice-certified on AWS, though my curiosity isn’t limited to a single cloud provider. I like to build things, and it doesn’t matter much where they run — as long as they’re fast, stable, and easy to operate.

Nowadays, I work as a cloud consultant at Xebia, where I help customers with their projects. Prior to becoming a consultant, I built various web applications, integrated enterprise systems, ran a couple of migrations and related tasks.

I occasionally write technical articles on topics I have an opinion about, which you can find here in the Articles section. My GitHub profile isn’t very prominent because my prior work was proprietary, but I’m on a path to change that – contribute to open source and build in public, not leak corporate intellectual property 😉.

I have been building for the web since 2007: started with PHP 5.0 and saw the golden age of jQuery and MooTools 🫠, and I still remember what $.noConflict() is. My genuine interest is in knowing how things work under the hood, not just their high-level APIs. It sent me into the depths of the Unix/Linux world, because that’s how one runs their own servers.

Things I have built

  • A custom file exchange service based on FreeBSD with a poor man’s “RAID” of a couple HDDs and gmirror.
  • An in-house VoIP-based hotline with a voice menu on Asterisk and FreePBX.
  • An automated importing solution for Price & Availability feeds built with PHP and raw SQL magic, that has been running in production since 2013.
  • Ansible-powered automatic provisioning of the RabbitMQ sandbox running on VMWare ESXi for my fellow engineers.
  • A custom Minikube provisioner to accelerate the adoption of Kubernetes and containers by the engineering team during the cloud modernisation and migration program.
  • A declaratively-managed serverless enterprise event bus based on Amazon EventBridge and managed with AWS CDK.

Things I work with

For backend engineering, I still use PHP (yes, it’s still not dead) and Python. I’m currently learning Go and Terraform. I have a strong opinion that JavaScript and TypeScript belong on the frontend – and that’s where they should stay.

I’m drawn to simple, effective, and robust architectures and am always on the lookout for another interesting challenge – I like to optimise a wonky database or turn an hour-long batch process into a blazingly fast event-based pipeline. I also have solid experience with Kubernetes and find it fascinating.

You can find me on LinkedIn and Github. Feel free to drop a line – I’m always happy to talk.