Summary
Denis Zimin is a backend engineer based in Berlin with over 20 years in software development and a decade focused on modern .NET backend systems. He builds and architects cloud-native microservices, APIs, and high-performance data layers using C#, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform, and has a strong track record in AWS-driven production deployments. Denis has repeatedly owned projects end-to-end—from co-founding a company and modernizing legacy stacks to leading product architecture and becoming the principal expert on a construction-focused project management platform. He’s known for pragmatic optimizations (notably highly tuned EF SQL and bidirectional sync designs), designing resilient messaging systems, and mentoring junior engineers to raise team quality. Trained as a control systems engineer and fluent in German studies, he blends analytical rigor with cross-cultural communication to deliver maintainable, scalable backend solutions.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
German Language and Literature, German Language and Literature at Goethe-Institut
Master's degree, Automated control systems and data processing, Master's degree, Automated control systems and data processing at MIREA (Russian Technological University)
Russian, English, German