Anton Nikolaienko
PO And Lead Of Technology at Avalanche Studios Group
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Nikolaienko is a veteran game engineer and technical leader with over 15 years of experience (and a career spanning 20+ years of shipped titles) who has helped deliver games played on hundreds of millions of devices across studios like Remedy, EA, Rovio, Mojang and Avalanche. He blends hands-on C++ engine and gameplay expertise with product ownership and people leadership, recently combining PO, tech lead and management duties to steer internal projects on proprietary engines. His resume spans AAA multi-platform launches, live Game-as-a-Service operations and startup CTO roles, with credits on award-winning and massive-scale titles such as Control, Crossfire and SimCity BuildIt. Known for tackling systemic gameplay and platform integrations, he moves comfortably between low-level engine work and high-level product strategy. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s repeatedly rebuilt teams and tech foundations in both established companies and bootstrapped startups, demonstrating a knack for shipping durable systems under varied constraints.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Specialist (eq. Master), Computing systems and networks, Bachelor, Specialist (eq. Master), Computing systems and networks at National University «Kyiv Aviation Institute»
Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (8)
asio8
boost8
configurator7
cpp7
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linux2
windows2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
anton-nikan/collision
Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 5 months
anton-nikan/iOS-Animation-Kit
Feb 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:11 commits in 2 months
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