Den Volkov
Co-founder CTO at Empy.ai
Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolDen Volkov is a product-minded founding engineer and technology leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience building scalable web platforms and leading cross-functional teams. As Co-founder and CTO (currently at Empy.ai) and former CEO of EPICSTARS, he has combined deep front-end and Node.js microservice expertise with GTM and product strategies to grow SaaS offerings to multimillion-dollar ARR and manage platforms serving hundreds of thousands of users. He excels at turning early prototypes into production-grade SPAs and microservices—having built systems that supported 300K MAU, integrated with multiple social networks, and onboarded 400k+ bloggers. Den pairs engineering craft (performance tuning, SSR, WebSocket/AMQP integrations) with operational rigor—introducing ABM sales, mass payment systems, and analytics that materially improved retention and revenue. Based in Lisbon, he brings startup grit and a track record of inventing practical frameworks (e.g., a blogger evaluation model) that drive measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4 at Modern Humanitarian Academy
English, Russian, Portuguese
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
VISIOBOX/aws-uploader
Jan 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 2 months
SevenQuark/moscowtrip
Sep 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:65 commits, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
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