Denis Pikalov
Software Engineering at Huawei Suomi Finland
Helsinki, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Pikalov is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience specializing in R&D for mobile and web technologies, browser engines, web services, and cloud platforms. He has a strong track record at major companies including Huawei, Giesecke+Devrient and Samsung, working across frontend and backend stacks (JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, Java, C/C++) and with security-focused standards like OAuth2, FIDO2 and WebAuthn. His background spans browser engine optimization and W3C prototyping to contactless payments and mobile/web app engineering, giving him rare depth in both browser runtime internals and applied security for payments. Based in Helsinki, he blends systems-level thinking from early Symbian and embedded work with modern cloud-native tooling (Docker, Azure, GCP), and has a history of turning research and PoCs into production features. An understated strength is his long-term involvement in web-runtime and standards-driven projects, which helps bridge product requirements and low-level implementation details.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Programming language theory, System programming, Programming language theory, System programming at High College of Informatics of the Novosibirsk State UniversityMaster's degree, Information technologies, Master's degree, Information technologies at Novosibirsk State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (26)
webcrypto-api6
libra5
api-authentication5
one-time5
expressjs4
passwords4
api3
webapp3
webcrypto3
security2
authentication2
docker-image2
wallet2
javascript2
over-the-air2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dpikalov/dpikalov.github.io
May 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
dpikalov/chatgpt-in-popup-chrome
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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