Dmitry Sotnikov

“Dmitry is so easy to work with, its downright silly. Why is that? Because he gets the Windows airspace. He's a rare breed of human with the qualities a great software company needs. First: he's tech-y (he has multiple Microsoft MVP awards). Second, he knows how to manage (I directly reported to him at Netwrix for a while.) He's great with numbers and charts and explaining those things to senior management. And, oh yeah, he knows how to do ALL the product management stuff and get software shipped out the door, on time with delighting customers. Very happy to have worked with Dmitry at Netwrix and hope our paths cross again !”

“Dmitry is a fantastic manager and mentor. He hired me into product management from product marketing, and I've grown immensely under his guidance. He always provided me with the support and inspiration I needed, while also trusting me to do my job and make my own decisions. Dmitry has a rare ability to strike a balance between helping his team members succeed and giving them the autonomy they need to grow.”

“I worked with Dmitry in two different companies. I actually brought him to 42Crunch after seeing him bringing WSO2 Cloud to life in the very early days of that offering. What he did then is very characteristic of Dmitry: he built the entire team, with the added difficulty of working with a different culture from the other side of the planet, worked with marketing, with sales, basically leading a small startup inside a startup. So when we needed someone to bring our SaaS offering to life at 42Crunch, I knew he would be a great fit. He helped us with the technical and non-technical aspects and then took on bringing apisecurity.io to life while starting our ecosystems team and what would become a very successful VSCode plugin, that more than 700K devs have downloaded to date. Dmitry is a wonderful leader, because he is a wonderful human. He is knowledgeable, reliable, and has worked across many fields. If you need to bring a product to life, or scale a product to enterprise level, Dmitry is your man. Oh and he speaks and writes French better than most French people too, in case that matters to you :)”

“Dmitry is one of the smartest individuals I have worked with throughout my career. His ability to collaborate with customers, understand requirements thoroughly and deliver on promise differentiates him from his peers in a unique way. I would love to work with him in future again.”

“Success of WSO2 Cloud = Dmitry I think the above equation pretty much sums up what a great asset Dmitry can be to an organization. He created and grew WSO2's cloud business to the success it is today. I briefly worked with Dmitry on Go-To-Market strategies for Ballerina (the new programming language) and it was then, that I really understood how Dmitry enables teams not just to find their niche and build great products that cater to it, but also creates go-to-market strategies that places the product in front of the target audience in the most effective ways. His technical expertise coupled up with a great sense of market pulse makes him a successful technology business leader and a rare breed! Dmitry would be an absolute asset to any organization that succeeds in convincing him to join them. ”

“Dmitry is one of the best in providing a great experience to the customers that are consuming his offerings, solutions, and products, always in a good mood, and willing to help, providing valuable answers and insights. His charisma and attention to listening any feedback and always trying to implement in a quick way that will bring great results are a few of the great mark he adds at any organization. Humble, easygoing person, a great buddy and highly skilled professional.”

“I worked with Dmitry very closely from Jan 2014 to July 2018 as the team lead of WSO2 Cloud team. Dmitry joined WSO2 as the VP of Cloud when we had just launched our public cloud offering. Dmitry guided us to build a successful SaaS offering from scratch. He is an all-rounder. He guided us on cloud operations, sales and pre-sales, marketing, product management, user experience, customer relationships, defining processes and many more areas which we needed to be successful in the business. While Dmitry was growing the business, he also had plans for each and every member of the team. He was a great mentor to the entire team and cared about the team a lot. I personally learned a lot from him which helped me grow in my career a lot. Dmitry is very capable of managing projects which needs multiple stakeholder coordination. He challenges others in a nice and polite manner to get the best out of them. He is very organized and follows up with us until the tasks are done-done to the level they should be. He is also able to adapt to different cultures and becomes a part of it in quick time. There are lot more great things which I wont mention because they will make this too long to read. If you want something to get going from scratch under difficult circumstances, Dmitry is the person you should turn to. ”

“Dmitry is a brilliant, effective leader who cares deeply about the business as well as the people. His passion for technology and commitment to an outstanding user experience are evident in everything he does. He's easy going and a lot of fun to work with while also being driven and diligent in his work. I would love to work with Dmitry again and would recommend him highly to anyone who wants a creative, passionate, and dedicated individual on their leadership team. ”

“Dmitry has undoubtedly been the best mentor I've had when I was working at WSO2. He is extremely professional and a very talented individual in every aspect of leadership. I worked with him for almost three years and during that period I learnt so much. His all around expertise helped me a great deal not only to master the responsibilities assigned to me as part of engineering related aspects, but also Sales, Marketing and Finance domains. In addition, his guidance has helped me gain good skills around how to do prospective vendor analysis as well. Dimitry is an expert in all the aforementioned areas and the way he guided us all in the team towards being successful as a team was impeccable. From an individual perspective, Dmitri's continuous guidance and monitoring has laid a strong foundation for me to become a competent individual, which has helped me a great deal to achieve a lot as a professional engineer. It was a real blessing to work with him directly and I, without any hesitation, recommend him to any organization, which is looking for an extremely visionary as well as professional leader towards driving their business to greater heights. ”

“Dmitry always delivered results on time and I thoroughly enjoyed working with him. I can describe Dmitry as responsible and mature person, and a good strategist. Him being a team player we clicked really fast and it proved to be a good collaboration later on.”

“Dmitry is such a pleasure to work with. Smart. Articulate. Trustworthy. He is able to deflect the stress of any tough situation with his sunny disposition and great sense of humor. I was working with Dmitry on several Jelastic projects with Rusonyx during 2 years. His extensive marketing expertise combined with great sales experience and attention to detail, makes him a marketing leader in the cloud industry. If you are looking to work with someone in a creative and energetic capacity, with an outstanding track record for success, I strongly recommend Dmitry.”

“It was a great pleasure to work for Dmitry at Jelastic. He is very knowledgable about the cloud industry, technically savvy, open to creative ideas, trusting and trustworthy, extremely helpful with anything I needed for customers and on top of it all very personable and caring. I hope our career paths cross again someday! :)”

“Dmitry approaches his work with joy and openness. He takes your ideas and tries to make them work. He is filled with great ideas too, and a willingness to collaborate to achieve great success. If you get the opportunity to work with him you won't regret it.”

“Dmitry was the main point of contact during negotiation phase, and follow-up after implementation. Always helpful and has a lot of knowledge from a technical and business perspective about Jelastic and the PaaS market. Jelastic is a very good platform, and Dmitry was one of the people behind it.”

“Dmitry is the BEST Manager I have ever had! He works harder than any member of his team and he inspires everyone with his creativity, amazing work ethic and his approachable, generous and kind personality. He is an excellent communicator - there is no guess work when dealing with Dmitry about what he expects from you. He always provides clear and concise instructions and expected results. He is incredibly organized and 100% committed to every project he is involved in. You know to expect quality and remarkable results each and every time. I wish I had my own business so that I could hire him!”

“Dmitry is the greatest COO I have so far worked with and recommending him is hard since I have to put so many of his qualities in a few lines. He's extremely smart, has a superb work ethic, a vast knowledge and is at the same time very sociable, hence working with him was fun as well as highly instructive. He is a significant reason for Jelastic's success in the PaaS business. Furthermore his excellent ability to communicate helps him to entertain as speaker at conferences.”

“Working with Dmitry was not only fun but also helped me grow professionally in a number of ways, in particular working remotely. Under his leadership, we took Jelastic from essentially an unknown company to being mentioned in the same sentence as Java and PaaS on a regular basis in less than a year. His tireless and demanding work ethic is hard to compete with and his ability to manage remote teams is second to none. One aspect of international work that is often not talked about is cultural differences across companies and regions. With all the companies and new talent coming out of Eastern Europe onto the global playing field, Dmitry's ability to bridge the gap between cultures is hard to put a value on, but it helped me learn that culture is something that needs to be thought of in every business relationship. If you are trying to manage teams across timezones, cultures, remote and not and need to make sure that a product is delivered on time and marketed in an effective way, Dmitry is your go-to guy.”

“If you are looking for an enthusiastic, energetic and visionary technology professional Dmitry is the guy. He gave birth to quite a few successful projects at Quest which became so thanks to his ability to sense new trends blended with a great deal of creativity and technology savviness. Dmitry is a good speaker that can find the right words to make people he work with feel as passionate about what they do as he does himself. I enjoyed working with him!”

“I greatly respect Dmitry's intelligence, creativity, and the way he has been instrumental in firmly planting Quest's flag at the base of the PowerShell movement. He is also a great speaker who loves to share his passions on technology.”

“Dmitry possesses great talent in knowing a customers needs and able to communicate those needs to development. His communication skills are superb. At Aelita, Dmitry was someone that provided sales with meaningful and well-packaged support materials. It was often his contribution made prospective clients finalize their decision to choose Aelita software. He is simply one of the best I have ever worked with!”

“Dmitry played a critical role in defining new technology initiatives, articulating the specifications and communicating the value to the market. Not only was he able to translate technical requirements, he was able to simultaneously translate them between English and Russian. It is rare to find someone with such wide-ranging capabilities and it is even rarer for that person to have such enthusiasm and positive outlook. He is a superstar!”

“Dmitry has the rare combination of being an extremely focused and capable individual that also has an excellent personality. Dmitry often brings incite and experience to challenging questions and will also offer creative solutions where they are pertinent. The combination of personality, experience and skill allow Dmitry to work well with everyone up through the CxO level.”

“Dmitry possesses those rare qualities of being able to think out of the box on a regular basis and then being able to turn those ideas to real-world solutions. It was a pleasure working with someone who was well suited to taking on the role of new product research and his success in that role going forward is proof of his ability to become a leader.”

“Dmitry sets the standard for all other product managers to be measured. He possesses superb intellect, excellent communication skills, and a work ethic that can only be described as tenacious. He is well respected by his peers, subordinates, customers and executive management alike. His work consistantly delivers on target and on time.”