Denis Silantev
Founder at Valhalla | DeFi Fund
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Silantev is a founder and FinTech technology leader with 8+ years of hands-on experience building high-load, compliant financial systems and crypto platforms. He organized Russia’s first fully legal cryptocurrency exchange as CTO—designing a 60+ microservice architecture, integrating fiat banking rails and ATM on-ramps, and instilling DevOps and compliance practices across a 50+ engineer organization. As a co-founder of an algorithmic trading platform he architected CEX/DEX/DeFi integrations and automated arbitrage/liquidity bots that helped deliver over $1M profit in year one. Denis now runs Valhalla, a DeFi fund that engineers automated yield strategies and has early clients outperforming a Bitcoin buy-and-hold by ~25%. He combines deep technical fluency (Python/Django, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, CI/CD) with product leadership, risk-aware engineering, and a knack for rapid MVP delivery under pressure. Based in Moscow, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a disciplined focus on security, regulatory alignment, and measurable financial outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, 5, Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science, 5 at Moscow Aviation Institute
Github Skills (22)
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
visual-studio-code9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
visual-studio9
vscode9
transliteration6
plot5
python4
checker4
mrz4
readable3
visualization2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SilantevDenis/englishWatcher
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
SilantevDenis/ExordeModuleCLI
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Exorde participation module (Testnet 2022-2023) - CLI
Contributions:12 pushes in 3 days
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