Alexander Nikolaev
Chief Technology Officer at RIS Group
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Nikolaev is a pragmatic CTO and founder with 11+ years of experience building and scaling web and enterprise systems from hands-on Ruby on Rails development to leading engineering teams. He combines a background in industrial consulting, product analytics and digital marketing with deep technical skills in high-load APIs, search, background processing and DevOps (Ansible, Docker), enabling him to translate business goals into reliable, production-grade software. Alexander has led ERP/CRM, e‑commerce and marketplace projects, optimized systems for tens of thousands of API requests per minute, and written automation to generate mass advertising content—an example of his practical focus on scalable automation. He prioritizes continuous technical upskilling and team culture, treating leadership as creating conditions for people to do their best work. Trained in theoretical and mathematical physics (MIPT), he brings analytical rigor and curiosity, now exploring functional languages like Elixir, Go and Elm.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Bachelor's degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Английский
Github Skills (49)
iteration10
translation10
turkish10
cors9
fundamentals9
ruby9
jruby9
coding9
versioning8
dependency-injection8
database-driver8
lang8
websocket8
ngrok8
jekyll8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rubyroid-team/minter
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:87 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
startaper/qna
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 2 months
pythonthinknetica
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