Alex Nikanov
Founding Software Engineer at Settle
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Nikanov is a founding software engineer and entrepreneur with nine years of experience building full-stack and DevOps-driven products, currently based in San Francisco. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Node.js backends, and cloud-native CI/CD—with founding experience at impact-driven ventures like Shop 4 UA and ed-tech SaaS startups. Alex has led distributed engineering teams, scaled mobile and web apps to tens of thousands of users, and architected performance and deployment improvements that materially increased reliability and throughput. His recent roles include founding engineering at Fifteenth and co-founding Settle while contributing short-term technical leadership across startups and university innovation programs. He’s motivated by technology for social good, proven by a non-profit that supported 2,000+ users and gained regional press, and he pairs that mission focus with practical DevOps chops (Docker, GitHub Actions, Fly.io). Outside work he’s an avid traveler, mountain biker, and self-described fantasy nerd—traits that feed a collaborative, curious approach to product problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High school Mathematics and Computer Science, High school Mathematics and Computer Science at Maine School of Science and MathematicsBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Business Administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Startups, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Business Administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Startups at Northeastern UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum #145
English, Ukrainian, Spanish, Russian
Github Skills (63)
coveralls9
pixel9
angularjs9
leaderboard9
react8
codecov8
travis-ci8
npm8
nodejs8
reproducible-research8
minesweeper8
evaluation8
executable7
javascript7
trend7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Niklex21/startop-landing
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
Landing page for StartOP
Contributions:1 review, 32 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 5 months
webpack
Niklex21/shoplocal4ukraine
Jul 2022 - May 2024
Shop 4 Ukraine official repository.
Contributions:9 reviews, 66 PRs, 209 pushes in 1 year 10 months
tailwindcssshoplocalbusinessnextjsshopping
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