Daniil has been working as a support technician, network administrator, architect and programmer for over a decade. He had been devoted to the original Vyatta system before its open-source version was discontinued in 2013, and forked off from it VyOS driven by him along with other networking geeks. Apart from being the maintainer and the voice of the VyOS project, Daniil is also active in the functional programming community and the OCaml ecosystem. He provides support for a bunch of open source projects outside the VyOS.
In his free time, he is a classical musician and composer as well as a successful freelance tech journalist.