Summary
Denys Fakhritdinov is a software engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building distributed, event-driven systems across startups and enterprises. He specializes in functional programming and Scala-based ecosystems, having delivered production-grade solutions using Akka, Kafka, Cassandra and FP libraries like Cats and FS2. Denys has driven resilient, low-latency designs—from sub-10ms game state servicing and cluster-sharding optimizations to CQRS/event-sourced customer support systems and schemaless analytical stores. He repeatedly focuses on operational excellence, introducing tracing, backpressure-aware persistence, and query-efficient streaming designs that minimize downtime during migrations. Currently at Coralogix, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems thinking and hands-on coding that makes complex distributed behavior predictable and maintainable. A not-obvious strength is his track record of designing changes that required minimal cross-team effort yet remained supported in production for years.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding