Denis Vodopianov
Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDenis Vodopianov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 13 years building high-scale, reliable distributed systems across fintech, analytics, and cloud-native platforms. He has led teams and owned critical services—from identity and authentication at N26 to analytics ingestion handling billions of events per day at Picsart—and repeatedly balanced trade-offs between microservices and microliths to optimise cost and performance. Denis is fluent in Kotlin, Java, Scala and is currently deepening expertise in Go and C++, plus CCNA networking prep, reflecting a blend of application and infrastructure instincts. He has a strong track record of reducing latency and operational cost (e.g., cutting response times from 20ms to 5ms and shrinking fleets by 40%) and building reconciliation pipelines that process hundreds of millions of transactions daily. Empathetic and analytically minded, he focuses on customer needs, ownership and measurable reliability improvements while mentoring teams to raise quality and delivery speed.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist Optical-Electronic Devices and Systems, Specialist Optical-Electronic Devices and Systems at ITMO University
English
Github Skills (39)
monitoring10
visualization10
dashboard10
observability10
mysql10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
composable10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
influxdb10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grambbledook/bigdata
Dec 2015 - Jul 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
grambbledook/tracer
Feb 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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