Summary
Denys Ashikhin is a Full Stack Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web applications and machine learning systems from Ontario, Canada. He combines hands-on backend and frontend expertise—Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Discord.js and custom encrypted protocols—with deep ML work using TensorFlow and PyTorch, including a 355k‑neuron LSTM and a convolutional autoencoder that achieved 99.9% accuracy. Denys has engineered production services serving over 205,000 unique users across 85+ Discord servers and self-hosted the infrastructure for load balancing and data persistence. Comfortable owning end-to-end systems, he moves fluidly between low-level networking, large-scale model tuning (300k+ hyperparameter experiments) and polished user-facing dashboards. His background in software engineering from Western University and leadership as VP Technical reflect a mix of academic rigor and practical, production-focused delivery.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Sir Fredrick Banting Secondary
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at Western University
English, Russian