Denis Volkov
Lead Golang at Yandex Cloud
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolDenis Volkov is a Lead Golang engineer based in Belgrade with a decade of programming experience and over four years focused on Go, currently driving the stateless PostgreSQL query router project at Yandex Cloud from prototype to production. He has deep operational experience in managed databases—rearchitecting the Yandex Terraform provider to reduce support requests by 70% and building extension tooling and CI/CD for Managed PostgreSQL. Denis blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic product delivery, speaking at conferences about sharding and scaling Postgres and shepherding open-source components that power commercial managed services. A math-and-CS graduate, he pairs rigorous problem-solving with hands-on leadership, and his GitHub persona "denchick" reflects a steady, if quiet, presence in developer tooling and infra.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Ural State University named after A.M.Gorky
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (89)
postgresql10
archiving10
databases10
proxy10
sharding10
backup10
aws-s310
clustering10
golang10
azure10
scalable10
database10
greenplum10
kubernetes10
mysql10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Denchick/docstrings2html
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years
Denchick/trademarks
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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