Denis Chapligin
Engineering Manager at Rovio Entertainment Corporation
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Chapligin is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer based in Helsinki, combining 15 years of hands-on development with a broader 25+ year background in embedded and backend systems. He leads teams at Rovio while pursuing doctoral work in computer vision at Tampere University, bridging cutting-edge research with product delivery. His career spans startups and large organizations—Wolt, Red Hat, Zalando—and roles from principal architect to chief developer, with deep expertise in maps/routing, CI/CD, and embedded IoT drivers. An active contributor to embedded open-source (notably improving Waveshare E-Ink drivers for partial updates and robustness), he brings practical low-level debugging skills alongside systems architecture. Known for reducing operational costs through infrastructure refactoring and for pragmatic technical leadership, he thrives at the intersection of research, embedded systems, and scalable backend services.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Process automation, BS Process automation at Kaliningrad Technical UniversityMaster's degree Computer Sciences Signal Processing and Machine Learning, Master's degree Computer Sciences Signal Processing and Machine Learning at Tampere University
English, Russian, German, Lithuanian, Czech
Github Skills (7)
e-ink10
rust-lang10
embedded10
rust10
sys10
epp10
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
caemor/epd-waveshare
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Drivers for various EPDs from Waveshare and others
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Denis primarily focused on adding support and improving the driver for a Waveshare 5.83" Black/Red/White E-Ink display. They inverted color channels for partial updates and integrated documentation and changelog entries, enhancing usability and maintainability. Further contributions included fixing test imports and addressing color-specific test issues, as well as fixing rotation tests, contributing to the functionality and reliability of the display driver.
driversrust-librarydriverrustepaper
akashihi/mdg-api-test
May 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 50 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 2 months
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