Alexander Nikolaev
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Nikolaev is an engineering manager and software architect with 11+ years of experience designing and delivering high-scale distributed systems, low-latency networking components, and full-stack web products from Prague. He has led cross-functional teams at Microsoft and Paylocity, shipped performance-focused features in .NET networking (including YARP) and driven SaaS meeting-join experiences in Teams, while earlier work spanned OLAP, manufacturing scheduling, and capital markets systems. Hands-on with both backend and frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, .NET Core), he combines architectural rigor with a proven track record of boosting performance—once improving YARP throughput by ~20%—and practical algorithms for searching terabyte-scale archives. Comfortable in fast-paced, resource-constrained environments, he repeatedly turns complex domain requirements into maintainable, intention-revealing designs and mentors teams to do the same. He also contributes to open-source tooling for trading integrations (enhancing python-binance endpoints), showing a tendency to bridge enterprise software and community projects.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Informatics And Management In Technical Systems, Engineer, Informatics And Management In Technical Systems at Novourl'sk National Institute Of Technology
English, Russian, Czech
Github Skills (8)
cryptocurrency10
apim10
binance10
api10
python10
apidoc10
documentation9
websocket8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sammchardy/python-binance
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Binance Exchange API python implementation for automated trading
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the development of the Binance Exchange API implementation. Their work involved adding new API endpoints for retrieving account snapshots and API trading status, and enabling/disabling fast withdraw features. They also updated the documentation to reflect these new API functionalities and migrated the code to use SAPI instead of WAPI. These changes directly extended the capabilities of the python-binance library.
apipythonwebsocketstrading-botautomated-trading
AlexNik/instagram-scraper
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
Scrapes an instagram user's photos and videos
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 7 months
videosinstagram-userscrapesinstagramphotos
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