Hey, I'm Dens 👋

I was employee #1 at Trieve (YC W24) (acq. by Mintlify), where I designed and scaled a distributed search platform that handles millions of queries in under 100 ms.

Before that, I was a SDE at Amazon, building large-scale backend services for vending brands and IP asset management.

Currently, I'm a Senior Backend Engineer at Mintlify, working on AI infrastructure and scaling.

When I’m not coding, I'm logging flight hours toward my private pilot’s license or tinkering with my many unfinished electrical engineering projects.

Featured Work

• Trieve — Low latency search engine for AI applications. Repo↗
• Broccoli — Distributed Rust message‑queue with Redis backing. Repo↗
• Actix Req/Reply Cache — A simple request/reply cache for Actix‑web backed by Redis. Repo↗
• Debate Evidence — Debate evidence search platform (30 K+ users). Repo↗

Latest Blog Posts

• How we built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant We replaced expensive sandboxes with ChromaFs, a virtual filesystem over Chroma, to give our docs AI assistant the ability to explore documentation like a developer would.
• Auto-generating documentation sites from GitHub repos How we built a multi-agent system to generate production-ready documentation sites from any public GitHub repository.
• Your Biggest Customer Might Be Your Biggest Bottleneck Simple FIFO queues are not viable for multi-tenant systems. I explain why fair queuing is a must and how I built Broccoli to address this issue.