Denis Babani
Head Of Platform Engineering
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Babani is a seasoned platform engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience building resilient, secure cloud infrastructures and leading engineering teams across startups and large enterprises. Currently Head of Platform Engineering in Greater Boston, he has led platform transformations at Akoya and Fidelity—designing cloud-native architectures, driving SOC 2 compliance, and keeping services at 99.99% availability through automated pipelines and disaster-recovery exercises. He combines deep technical fluency (AWS, Kafka, Spring, Node, Python) with product-facing collaboration, having worked closely with product owners and CISOs to align security, reliability, and roadmap priorities. As a founding engineer at Akoya and a VP at Fidelity, he has repeatedly moved from code to strategy, replacing legacy systems with modern conversational and cloud contact-center solutions. His background in speech recognition research and early work on real-time ad delivery reveal a long-standing focus on high-performance, data-driven systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Speech Recognition Computer Science, Master of Engineering Speech Recognition Computer Science at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara JapanBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Sciences at Electrical Engineering Faculty, Tirana Albania
Albanian, English, Italian, Japanese
Github Skills (25)
capstone10
reference-implementation8
wsdl8
openid8
android7
spring-boot7
spring7
soap-client7
soap6
java6
openid-connect6
react-native6
cli5
rust5
mobile4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dnsserver/vim-files
Dec 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:19 pushes in 4 years 3 months
dnsserver/datahub
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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