Aleksey Nikiforov
Principal Software Engineer, Data
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorAleksey Nikiforov is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in data and distributed systems with 14+ years of experience building real-time streaming platforms, scalable data warehouses, and production ML pipelines. He has driven cross-company initiatives—introducing SQLMesh and Looker integrations, designing medallion architectures, and delivering real-time financial streaming to external partners—while fostering operational excellence at startups and scale-ups. Comfortable across the stack, he has built transactional streaming from sharded RDBMS to Kafka, authored tooling to bridge SQLMesh and Looker, and contributed open-source connectors for reliable stream processing. Based in Ottawa, he pairs deep systems design with a product-aware mindset, often solving data access and privacy challenges proactively (e.g., company-wide PII anonymization and structured log processing).
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (67)
python-client10
concurrency10
streaming10
reactive10
akka10
high-performance10
concurrent10
connect10
java-client10
kafka-python10
java10
producer10
confluent10
librdkafka10
confluent-cloud10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joelcrocker/sdf-akka-workshop
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 days
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PagerDuty/eris-widerow
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:12 PRs, 11 pushes, 12 branches in 10 months
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