Summary
Vitalik 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