Denis Yakovenko
Chief Executive Officer at Faster Than Light
Kharkiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Canada
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Top SchoolDenis Yakovenko is a CEO and former software engineer with 11 years of experience building web products and leading technology teams from Kharkiv, now based in Canada. As co-founder and CEO of Faster Than Light since 2019, he combines hands-on engineering intuition with operational leadership—translating strategy into delivery while overseeing R&D, operations, customer success and finance. He rose through roles as a project manager and engineer, grounding executive decisions in full‑lifecycle delivery, technical coaching, and practical backend/frontend experience (Ruby on Rails, JavaScript ecosystems). Denis also taught and wrote technical materials as a RoR coach, showing a knack for simplifying complex concepts for others. Known internally as a “walking Swiss Army knife,” he blends product-minded engineering with people leadership to keep multiple client engagements moving. His profile reflects a builder who still values code-level understanding alongside company-scale execution.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineer, Master's degree Software Engineer at National Aviation University
Ukrainian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
authentication10
matlab9
fastify9
strategy-pattern9
api9
nest9
outlook9
ruby9
devise9
overhead9
rails9
nodejs9
spree8
angular8
hapi8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yakovenkodenis/node-oracledb-tutorial
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
RubyBursaRelsohod/team_project
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:234 commits, 111 PRs, 172 pushes in 1 month
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