Denis Lipatov RU / EN

Career

2009 to 2026, by years

  1. 2009
  2. 2010
  3. 2011
  4. 2012
  5. 2013
  6. 2014
  7. 2015
  8. 2016
  9. 2017
  10. 2018
  11. 2019
  12. 2020
  13. 2021
  14. 2022
  15. 2023
  16. 2024
  17. 2025
  18. 2026

What the years add up to

14
years shipping production software
7
years with a Senior title
11
teams in 14 years, from a university lab to a Boston SaaS
5
products taken from an empty repo to launch

2009

Screen

Film acting begins

5 film credits between 2009 and 2013. Kinopoisk

2010

2011

Own

On GitHub since 2011

The first public repository: a chat and forum.

2012

Work

First developer job

Android developer at the NRNU MEPhI Engineering Center. Early roles through 2015: Android, PHP, project management (Dance11, NeedHelp, Logrus.ru).

2013

Screen

Last year on screen

The film credits end here.

2014

Screen

YouTube show «Боевые Нёрды» (Battle Nerds), until 2015

A show on YouTube, 2014 and 2015. YouTube

2015

Work

Svetets, project manager, to 2016

Ran projects end to end: requirements, documentation, planning, clients. Why my specs read well today.

2016

Work

legko.com, Laravel developer, to 2017

Built and launched the service from scratch, about 80% of the codebase. Laravel and Vue from this year.

2017

Work

diler.ru for TriLan

Built diler.ru in 5 months: a catalog parser a non-technical manager configures.

Work

Media Target, from December, to 2019

Built pushex.io from the ground up: Laravel plus Go microservices. Owned the rusvpn.com API. Hired engineers.

2018

2019

Work

Matetech, Senior PHP developer, to 2021

Launched matetech.ru from scratch: a multi-tenant learning platform. Built a code-generation system, introduced git-flow and planning. The first Senior title.

2020

2021

Work

Alyce, Senior Laravel developer, to 2022

A Boston B2B SaaS. Features and architecture decisions in a production SaaS, daily English with a US team.

2022

Work

GrowFood, Senior Backend Engineer, to June 2026

Led the R&D direction. One integration gateway for 5 systems; partners 2 and 3 plugged in without a rewrite. 10+ production Telegram bots. LLM features in production. Key routes several times faster: p90 first, then profiler, then EXPLAIN.

2023

2024

2025

Own

A personal assistant, generations one and two

First a Telegram-to-notes bot, then a self-hosted stack.

2026

Own

VotaWallet and what grew around it

VotaWallet: an empty repo in February, production in 27 days, Google Cloud and the Google for Startups Cloud Program in June, Android on Google Play and iOS on the App Store, an MCP server from spec to production in 69 hours. votaboilerplate and VotaCrudGenerator, both open source. VotaClaw, the third generation of the assistant. Pivonator, a product idea so far. VotaWallet AI systems

Scene

In public, in Belgrade

Building VotaWallet in public: the launch thread drew 70+ replies, 15 posts in the first two months. Monad Blitz Belgrade, a one-day hackathon build. Startup World Cup Serbia, attended as a founder. Calendar

Work

GrowFood until June

The Work lane ends here.