Nick Uraltsev
Staff Software Engineer at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Uraltsev is a Staff Software Engineer with 20+ years building distributed systems and developer platforms, currently driving foundational infrastructure at Chime. He has led streaming and data-pipeline efforts at Stripe and Chime—designing Kafka/Flink pipelines, Protobuf schema tooling, and event-stream tooling—while reducing operational toil and mentoring engineers. His work spans Go, Kubernetes, AWS streaming services, and full-stack technologies from Python/React to C#/.NET, reflecting a systems-minded, pragmatic approach. An active open-source contributor, he significantly improved the popular axios HTTP client by adding instantiability and modern TypeScript definitions. He holds a Master’s in Applied Mathematics and pairs mathematical rigor with a focus on shipping reliable, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Applied Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Applied Mathematics at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (23)
typescript310
javascript10
node-js10
react-native10
es6-promise10
typescript10
typescript210
redux10
axios10
http-client10
javascripts10
reactjs10
typescript-types10
http-headers10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
axios/axios
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 177 commits, 126 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick significantly enhanced the axios library by introducing instantiability, allowing for the creation of custom axios instances. These changes included restructuring the core `axios` function and implementing helper methods for various request types. Moreover, the user updated the TypeScript definitions to accurately reflect these changes, ensuring type safety for developers using the library. Further contributions included the implementation of a helper function to combine URLs and refactoring to rename a creation method.
browserxmlhttprequestnode-jshttp-clientjavascript
nickuraltsev/finity
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
A finite state machine library for Node.js and the browser with a friendly configuration DSL.
Contributions:14 releases, 188 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 4 months
finite-statebrowserfsm-librarynode-jsfsm
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