Denys Parchenko is a pragmatic software engineer and tech lead with 13+ years of experience building scalable web applications and leading teams across publishing, video, and startup environments. Currently at Road and formerly a Tech Lead at Elsevier, he specializes in improving complex workflows for scientific publishing, architecting resilient hosted services, and championing best practices like Twelve-Factor apps and CI/CD. He has hands-on experience from front-end bootstrapping to platform engineering—having built a PaaS around Mesos and Docker and shipped isomorphic video apps and mobile clients. Comfortable balancing hiring, product communication, and code-level quality, Denys combines deep technical ownership with a consistent focus on UX and developer productivity. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs a multidisciplinary academic background in physics, math, CS and economics with a track record of turning research-driven requirements into reliable, production-ready systems.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Math, Computer Science, Economics, Master's degree, Physics, Math, Computer Science, Economics at East Ukrainian National University named after V. Dal
Computer networks, databases and databanks, Computer networks, databases and databanks at Small Academy of Sciences Lugansk territorial branch
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