Denis Kovalev
Sr Software Engineer I at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDenis Kovalev is a seasoned Sr Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and infrastructure for companies ranging from startups to enterprises like Uber, KPN, Panasonic and Wargaming. He specializes in Python and Go, has a solid background in systems-level languages (C, Java, Perl), and extensive hands-on experience with AWS (EC2/S3/EMR/RDS/SQS/ECR), Docker, CI/CD, and monitoring stacks. Denis has led architectural decisions for high-traffic applications, developed CDN and analytics microservices, and optimized large-scale data storage and pipelines. Comfortable in teams of various sizes and distributed setups, he combines pragmatic engineering with a penchant for tooling and automation (Ansible, Docker) to reduce operational friction. Outside of teams, he co-organizes and speaks at the “Deep Refactoring” community, showing a commitment to knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. Based in Amsterdam with an electrical engineering master’s foundation, he’s a problem-solver who quietly bridges low-level systems thinking and cloud-native production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, A, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, A at Voronezh State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (55)
execution-time10
refactoring10
timing9
pymunk9
geotext9
deep-learning8
discord-bot8
perf8
machine-learning8
discord7
stream7
decorators7
python7
elasticsearch6
dictionary6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aikikode/fileshare
Nov 2012 - Mar 2019
Contributions:5 releases, 85 commits, 18 pushes in 6 years 5 months
aikikode/pyvolley
Apr 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 11 months
physicscocos2dpythonvolleygui
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