Dmitriy Kalugin-Balashov

Dmitriy Kalugin-Balashov is a Senior Software Engineer at Couchbase, involved in the development of Plasma, a high-performance secondary index engine since October 2018. Previously, Dmitriy served as a Principal Software Engineer at Exnodes Inc., architecting software for XPRO UW, a wafer inspection tool, and has a background as a Senior Lecturer at Moscow State University, teaching C/C++ Multithreading Programming. Dmitriy has held leadership roles, including Head of Development Group at Mail.Ru Group, where responsibilities included managing a mail search engine, and various engineering positions at Murclub, Partner LLC, and Focal Engineering Center. Dmitriy holds multiple degrees in applied mathematics and theoretical computer science from educational institutions including Lomonosov Moscow State University and Siberian Federal University.