Eugene Nikanorov
Senior Software Engineer at Roku Inc.
Cupertino, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEugene Nikanorov is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, scalable cloud and infrastructure software from Cupertino. He combines deep systems programming in Python, Java and C/C++ with hands-on cloud automation using Azure, AWS, Terraform, Ansible and Salt. Eugene has a track record of improving core OpenStack projects (Neutron, Nova, Tempest), contributing bug fixes, refactors, tests and race-condition fixes that bolster production reliability and security. At Mirantis he shaped product roadmaps and solved architectural and performance challenges, and more recently he has driven platform engineering at Vudu and Roku. Known for pragmatic code quality improvements—such as database retry refactors and API driver hardening—he focuses on long-term maintainability as much as shipping features. His background blends formal computer science training with deep open-source experience, making him an effective bridge between ops, engineering and product.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer sciences, Master, Computer sciences at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
English, Italian
Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
json10
api-rest10
python10
hyper-v10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
load-balancing10
n10
pest10
openstack10
api10
sqlalchemy10
temper10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Nov 2012 - May 2016
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:160 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Eugene primarily contributed to the OpenStack Neutron networking project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to network plugins, specifically in the context of service plugins and agent-based load balancing. They implemented functionality for loading multiple service plugins, including the core plugin, and also addressed issues with database queries and code logic within the load balancing service, ensuring that the database models are being updated correctly. The user also made contributions to testing, writing new unit tests and refactoring existing ones to improve the robustness of the code base. Furthermore, the user helped address issues related to race conditions in the plugin's code.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
openstack/nova
Jun 2013 - Apr 2015
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Eugene primarily focused on improving the OpenStack Compute (Nova) project, specifically addressing code quality and efficiency within the Hyper-V and VMware API drivers. Their work included removing `locals()` from various code paths and fixing associated logging issues, demonstrating an emphasis on code maintainability. Furthermore, the user addressed a security issue related to DB operations by refactoring it with `oslo_db.api`, indicating a commitment to security best practices. Additionally, the user refactored the code with the `wrap_db_retry` decorator, which suggests improving the robustness of the database interactions.
novaopendevopenstackcompute
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