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 contributed to deep-space satellite communication research in ASU’s Interplanetary Initiative Lab.

Currently, I'm a Jr. SDE at Amazon, building large-scale backend services for vending brands and IP asset management while completing my B.S. in Computer Science at Arizona State University.

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

• 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.
• Accurate Hallucination Detection With NER Using a LLM-as-a-judge for hallucinations is slow and imprecise relative to simple NER. We share how we solved hallucination detection at Trieve.
• How We Built 300μs Typo Detection for 1.3M Words in Rust We explain how we built blazingly fast spellcheck in Rust using BKTrees, Redis queues, and Clickhouse in this blog.