Summary
Daniel Pletnev is a senior full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems primarily using Node.js, TypeScript, React, and occasional Go. He has repeatedly led cloud console and infrastructure projects at Nebius AI and Yandex, delivering end-to-end platforms, services, and common libraries that improve performance and developer productivity. Daniel combines backend expertise (APIs, WebSockets, WebRTC, caching, Kubernetes) with frontend rewrites and UX improvements, and has hands-on experience deploying resilient systems using Docker, Nginx, Redis, and AWS. He has led teams and mentored engineers while modernizing legacy stacks into serverless and cloud-native architectures for marketplaces and real-time apps. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs a strong systems mindset with pragmatic product focus and an unusual cross-disciplinary background that includes legal studies (LLM), which informs his attention to detail and governance.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
Master of Laws - LLM, Master of Laws - LLM at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University
English, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch