Hi there , I'm Dmitrii Demenev.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience who does

• 🦀 Rust,
• 📦 Open-source,
• 💻 Full-stack (80% backend),
• 📱 Cross-platform,
• 🌐 Cross-language interoperability ¹.

I'm a down-to-earth guy who learns the arts of humble brag and setting sane expectations to be trusted but not expected to do the factually impossible ².

I consider myself a pragmatist³ and an eudaimonic⁴ and eclectic individual.

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Achievements

• ⭐ Star shooter. I was one of the first 25 software developers at Moonton, the company behind Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. This game alone generated the lifetime gross revenue of over $1,106,530,000 USD.
• ⚡ Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. I was one of the first 5 developers at Searchless Inc, the company that became the top-100 AI startup in Canada, 2025.
• 🤝 Trusted. I authored the qualifier_attr Rust crate, which became a dependency of Solana (24-hour trading volume of $355,645,065.28 USD).
• 📦 That guy from Nebraska Calgary (reference). My Rust crates have been downloaded from crates.io over 5,000,000 times (see the live count for yourself with Google Collab).
• 📚 Recognized expert. Achieved recognition as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) in Rust by Coursera. Technically, they just called me this way in a message. But it counts, right?
• 👑 Top 1%. Top 1% Rust engineers globally, according to Algora.io.
• 🌲 From little seeds grow mighty trees. Started coding at the age of 10. My dad was a professor at a university and a double PhD in Physics and Mathematics who decided to teach me some C and C++ while I was young. Rest in peace, dad.
• ⌨️ Prolific code monkey (reference). Over 200 total GitHub repositories, among which over 100 are public. None of them is Hamlet, yet there are some interesting ones.
• 💪 Master of my own destiny. I stayed clear from ever consuming memes, smoking, drinking, or using drugs. I never came close to reaching the rock bottom mentally and stoically endured all the hardships in life. I work out and, as of October 8 (2025), have a 730+ day long streak of learning French on Duolingo.

Also see

• My biography from the perspective of commercial programming.

Footnotes

1. FFI, WebAssembly, and stuff. I can write code for nearly any other programming language using Rust. ↩

2. I love the challenge and to make the seemingly impossible things the reality. ↩

3. https://medium.com/@pronskiy/the-great-doctrine-or-10-simple-rules-that-any-developer-should-follow-d0e4b92bd62a ↩

4. By that I mean that I derive the majority of my happiness from eudaimonics. More on the topic here: https://youtu.be/ry0zG2n0Hyg?si=lZNFmPiirzF7Kcal&t=221 ↩