Dmitry Kankalovich

Principal Software Engineer at Endgame

One-man army of a software engineer before AI. Agent overlord after.

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Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Dmitry Kankalovich

For fifteen years I was a one-man army: frontend, backend, DevOps and infrastructure, shipping whole solutions for enterprise clients across three continents.

Now I do the same work with agents. At Endgame I run client delivery end to end — architecture, hands-on implementation, and technical leadership of the team doing it.

Now

Principal Software Engineer (Endgame)

> 2026 - Pres | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Endgame is an AI-native technology consultancy, building enterprise-grade products at speed for the likes of IKEA, ASML, Philips, ING and Ahold Delhaize.

I own client delivery end to end: solution architecture, hands-on implementation, and technical leadership of the engagement team.

I also work pre-sales — scoping what an engagement should be, and what it should cost, before anyone commits to building it.

Before

Fifteen years consulting as Principal Engineer, Tech Lead and Solution Architect.

> 2021 - 2026 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nike, Lenovo and one of the world's largest hedge funds


> 2017 - 2021 | Los Angeles, USA

Warner Bros., Live Nation and Ticketmaster


> 2011 - 2017 | Minsk, Belarus

DHL, MoneySuperMarket (UK), EE (UK), Canadian Tire and Sotheby's

Expertise

AI: agentic systems, LLM application development, retrieval and evaluation

Languages: Java, Python, TypeScript, Go

Cloud and platform: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code

Data: relational, document and vector stores, search, event streaming

Engineering: distributed architecture, CI/CD, security, GDPR and CCPA compliance