Summary
Denis MARKIN is a Principal Software Engineer and architect with nearly two decades of experience modernizing backends, orchestrating large-scale data migrations, and aligning technical strategy with business outcomes. He has led zero-downtime migrations of ~30TB to MongoDB Atlas, resolved P99.9 latency issues, and delivered ~$750k/year in operational savings through cluster-level optimizations. Comfortable across monolith-to-microservice extractions, CI/dev tooling, and multi-tenant data isolation, he excels at turning ambiguous product needs into clear, shippable architectures. Recently he’s focused on AI-enhanced developer tooling and Model Context Protocol integrations to reduce engineering friction and speed iteration. Hands-on and pragmatic, Denis partners with leadership, product, and engineers to drive high-leverage technical decisions that scale across teams. Based in the United States, he remains deeply curious and available for remote roles.
10 years of coding experience