Deniss Afonin
Technical Lead at Twilio Inc.
Tallinn, Harju maakond, Estonia
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Top SchoolDeniss Afonin is a Technical Lead based in Tallinn with 14 years of experience building and architecting backend systems, primarily for the games industry. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership at Twilio after years of developing scalable Java and Kotlin backends, real-time Netty services, and analytics pipelines using Kafka, ClickHouse, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP). His background spans mobile game engines in C++ and server-side game infrastructure (Redis, DynamoDB, SQS) as well as tooling and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK). Known for taking projects from prototype to production, he has repeatedly owned backend architecture for MMO and racing titles while also shipping Android/iOS game clients. Comfortable across languages and clouds, he brings a pragmatic focus on performance, reliability, and operability that reflects deep experience in latency-sensitive systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at School of Informatics and Sciences
English, Russian, Estonian
Github Skills (52)
actionscript10
http10
java10
ruby10
network-server10
dart10
thrift10
powermock10
csharp10
idl10
apache9
testing9
linux9
java-client9
mocking9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
afds/thrift
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 8 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 6 months
javaapacheapache-thriftthrift
afds/hello-github-actions
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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