Alexander Nikolaev
CTO And Owner at UAB "Victoria Nova"
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Nikolaev is a seasoned CTO and founder with 17 years building production software, embedded Linux distributions, and custom web-search crawlers from his base in Vilnius. He blends deep systems and low-level skills in C/C++ and Python with functional programming expertise in Haskell and Erlang, and a strong ops orientation demonstrated through NixOS, build/release engineering, and container storage automation. His open-source contributions span POSIX bindings for Lua and infrastructure work on the Mantl platform, reflecting a habit of improving both developer ergonomics and runtime reliability. Comfortable across VoIP protocols (H.323/SIP), embedded targets, and large-scale scraping/RSS analysis, he seeks non-standard, bleeding-edge projects that mix algorithmic and systems complexity. Colleagues rely on him to turn unusual technical requirements into pragmatic, well-tested solutions while owning end-to-end delivery as a hands-on leader.
17 years of coding experience
English, Russian, Lithuanian, Spanish
Github Skills (27)
docker10
scripting10
lvm10
bash10
c1110
dockers10
c1710
lua10
automation10
script10
ansible10
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
systemd10
ansible-galaxy10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mantl/mantl
Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
Mantl is a modern platform for rapidly deploying globally distributed services
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:68 commits, 19 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on infrastructure and deployment aspects within the Mantl platform. Their contributions involved configuring storage solutions with LVM, including the creation of thin pools for Docker. They automated the setup and management of systemd units and configuration files for services like Zookeeper and etcd. Furthermore, the user added scripts to monitor and maintain critical services' functionality, demonstrating a focus on operational aspects.
deployingdockerkubernetescloud-nativedistributed
luaposix/luaposix
Sep 2011 - Aug 2013
Lua bindings for POSIX APIs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Lua bindings for POSIX APIs, adding functionality and fixing bugs within the `lposix.c` file. They expanded the API by implementing functions such as `dup`, `dup2`, `pipe`, `setfl`, and `getfl`, improving the capabilities of the library. Furthermore, the user addressed an existing bug in `pread` and added several tests for `mkdtemp` and `mkstemp` functions, enhancing code reliability and test coverage. They also improved the test infrastructure with glob test rework.
lua-bindingluaposixazerothcoreluarocks
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