Vitalik Danchenko
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolVitalik Danchenko is a Staff Software Engineer based in Ottawa with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver scalable, cloud-native distributed systems. At Shopify he has driven technical strategy, designed key architecture components, coordinated cross-team projects, and mentored engineers while shaping the Shopify Fulfillment Network. Previously he led engineering and product development at Talkable, where he combined hands-on backend work, SDK development, and people management to ship customer-facing features. Earlier roles include co-founding a successful event-tech startup—where he built real-time registration and tracking systems and exited the business—and deep experience in backend and database engineering. He blends entrepreneurial initiative with long-term architectural thinking, comfortable moving between code, systems design, and team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Programming Technologies, Master's degree, Computer Science and Programming Technologies at Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University
Ukrainian, Russian, English
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Github Skills (39)
shopify-api10
admin10
shopify10
polaris10
rails10
hotel-booking10
rest10
graphql10
spree10
documentation10
ruby9
relic9
mvc9
html9
activerecord8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vitalikdanchenko/turbosms
Dec 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 releases, 13 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 11 months
ruby-gemrubysoapgatewaygem
talkable/twistnslide
Jan 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
twistslide
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