Denis Karataev
Head Of Engineering at Ajaib
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Top SchoolDenis Karataev is a hands-on engineering leader with 14–15 years building high-load, distributed backend systems and seven years of formal technical leadership, currently serving as Head of Engineering in Ho Chi Minh City. He specializes in Golang for six years, architecting scalable platforms and APIs used by millions across e-commerce, retail tech, and enterprise software while leveraging Google Cloud, Big Data, Java, and Python where needed. Denis has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms fast—migrating data factories to microservices in months, training full engineering stacks across languages, and leading cross-border squads at Alibaba/Lazada. He combines product-focused delivery with operational rigor, having hired and mentored teams of up to seven direct reports and overseen 20 indirect contributors. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture, and exec-level collaboration, he focuses on time-to-market and cost efficiency to turn data and retail media into revenue-generating products. An early entrepreneur and community builder, he also co-founded an engineering services firm and created a leading Russian-speaking Odoo community, reflecting his blend of technical depth and practical business impact.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)Mathematics, Mathematics at Gymnasium 80, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
Russian, English, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (86)
postgresql10
python10
code-generator10
sql10
sqlite10
sql-generation10
kotlin10
django9
database9
management9
orm9
mysql9
mocking9
go9
mocks8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
odoo-russia/i18n_ru
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 months
pythonodooerp
odoo-russia/odoo-russia
Aug 2011 - Oct 2015
Contributions:413 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 2 months
pythonodoo
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