Denis Tkachuk
Senior Software Engineer at Shakepay
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Tkachuk is a senior software engineer with 7+ years of full‑stack experience building high‑traffic fintech products and integrations. He has led cross‑functional teams end‑to‑end, shaping technical strategy, scoping work, and delivering complex features like KYB onboarding and a customer tier system while acting as the primary liaison for third‑party vendors. Comfortable across front‑ and back‑end stacks, Denis has improved service health, optimized performance, and used analytics to drive engineering decisions at companies serving tens of thousands of daily users. He mentors engineers, drafts design documents, and drives org‑level engineering practices to increase delivery reliability. With a background that started in genetics and biotechnology before pivoting to web development, he brings a data‑driven, multidisciplinary perspective to product engineering. Based in Toronto, he excels at translating ambiguous business needs into scalable technical solutions that balance speed and maintainability.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Part Time Course JavaScript, Part Time Course JavaScript at HackerYou College of TechnologyBiotechnology, Biotechnology at Centennial CollegeMaster’s Degree Genetics, Master’s Degree Genetics at Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivWeb Development Bootcamp, Web Development Bootcamp at Lighthouse Labs
Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (29)
compounds10
git9
github9
explore9
combinations9
bioinformatics8
patch7
datasets7
discovery7
database6
signature6
rest5
gene-expression5
subversion5
web-application5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bhklab/SYNERGxDB
Jun 2019 - May 2021
SYNERGxDB is a comprehensive database to explore synergistic drug combinations for biomarker discovery.
Contributions:643 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
explorebiomarkercombinationsbiomarker-discoverydiscovery
deventorum/Decision-Maker
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:33 PRs, 43 pushes, 6 branches in 24 days
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