Denys Nichoha
@denysnichoha
Senior full-stack .NET engineer building AI-assisted, end-to-end products with scalable architecture.
What I'm looking for
I’m a senior software engineer with 16+ years building complex desktop, web, and cloud applications in the Microsoft stack. I bring deep experience in architecture, legacy modernization, CI/CD, and full-stack delivery—plus a proven ability to lead teams and ship products end-to-end.
As an AI-native developer, I embed AI-assisted coding into my daily workflow to scaffold, test, and ship features faster—while reviewing and verifying every output. I focus on judgement: when to accelerate delivery and when to trust, validate, or rework.
In my recent venture, Moonpool (Founder / Builder), I designed and built the product end-to-end using an AI-assisted workflow (Claude / Claude Code). I also automated delivery and operations with AI, improving gross margin from 60% to 97%.
Previously at ELEKS, I maintained and extended a legacy enterprise web application across the full stack, resolving production defects with minimal regression risk and refactoring aging modules to deliver incremental features on schedule. Earlier roles include owning end-to-end delivery for multiple clients as a Delivery Manager (managing stakeholders and engineers) and leading team refactoring and migrations across .NET, AWS, and SQL-heavy systems.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founder & AI Product Builder
Moonpool
Apr 2026 - Present (2 months)
Designed and built an AI-assisted product end-to-end using Claude workflows to accelerate scaffolding, testing, and iteration. Automated delivery and operations with AI, improving gross margin from 60% to 97%.
Maintained and extended a legacy enterprise web application across the full stack, combining C#/.NET backend and ExtJS frontend. Investigated complex production defects and refactored aging modules to deliver incremental features with minimal regression risk.
Owned end-to-end delivery for 4 clients, managing 10+ stakeholders and 30+ engineers while running Agile/Scrum with bi-weekly demos and frequent releases. Drove startup discovery, estimation, and risk assessment, achieving at least 30% budget savings through phased onboarding.
Full Stack .NET Developer
Rinftech / Extenda Retail
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021 (2 years)
Worked on full-cycle retail platform delivery (POS, financial, logistics), handling deployment/configuration and monitoring. Migrated WebAPIs from .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.1 and CI from TeamCity to GitHub Actions, introduced a company-wide logging standard, and improved unit-test code coverage.
Co-Founder / CPO
CoinsHarbor
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 (11 months)
Designed the architecture and shipped an MVP in 3 months: a server integrating multiple crypto exchanges via API for strategy analysis. Grew to 300 stable users and raised $250K+ across seed rounds, owning feature development, technical documentation, and team mentoring.
Senior .NET Developer / Team Lead
Daxx
Jun 2016 - Oct 2017 (1 year 4 months)
Led a team of 7, ran Scrum, and managed tech-debt planning and refactoring for taxi (Tamam) and BaaS (Taqneen) platforms. Migrated away from an external BaaS to AWS-based MS SQL with EF and designed/secured an OData data layer, including payment and SMS integrations.
Senior .NET Developer / Scrum Master
Auditdata
Apr 2015 - Jan 2016 (9 months)
Developed a multi-module WPF audiometry application interacting with a USB audio card via device commands. Refactored to remove memory leaks and integrated StyleCop into the TFS CI build while migrating build tooling from TFS 2010 to TFS 2015 and hosting Scrum ceremonies.
Designed WPF application architecture and built multithreaded UIs using Prism and Caliburn.Micro, including resolution-independent custom controls. Delivered gaze-interaction desktop tooling using Microsoft UI Automation mappings and processed gaze data while refactoring with IoC/SOLID and driving releases through Git, TeamCity, and Jira.
Built maintainable Silverlight UI using Telerik controls and Prism with MVVM, embedded within a Java capital-markets web application. Covered new and legacy code with NUnit tests, created XSD schemas for XML from the Java backend, optimized view-model performance, and fixed memory leaks.
.NET / Silverlight Developer
Softheme
Apr 2010 - Dec 2012 (2 years 8 months)
Built the data-access layer and MS SQL database architecture using LINQ to SQL/ADO.NET for new BI and CRM modules. Migrated a Silverlight BI solution toward SPA functionality (controllers, rich UI, KnockoutJS/jQuery AJAX view-models) and developed the Mentor CRM with WCF services, dynamic module loading, and IIS deployment.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
ICAgile
ICAgile Certified Professional, Agile
2015 -
Completed the ICAgile Certified Professional certification.
National Aviation University
Bachelor of Science, Information & Communication Systems Security
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Science in Information & Communication Systems Security at National Aviation University.
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