Hrant Novikov
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHrant Novikov is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems at leading tech companies including Meta and Google. He has progressed from individual contributor roles to engineering leadership, including Director of Engineering and Lead Software Engineer positions, bringing both hands-on coding and team-level decision making. Hrant has deep experience with HTTP proxy and logging tooling—contributing to Google’s popular martian proxy library, improving mobile and HAR subpackages and hardening proxy APIs and HTTP logging. Based in San Francisco, he combines production-grade backend expertise with a pragmatic approach to debugging and CI/build environment issues. Collected work across entertainment, ad tech, and cloud storage firms shows an ability to ship reliable systems under varied constraints. He holds a BS in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge and is known for quietly fixing thorny integration and logging problems that improve observability for large services.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at California State University, Northridge
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Github Skills (14)
http10
proxy10
middleware10
go10
testing10
mysql9
api-design9
css9
html6
php6
javascript6
sql6
python6
multithreading6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/martian
Mar 2018 - May 2021
Martian is a library for building custom HTTP/S proxies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Hrant primarily contributed to the `mobile` and `har` (HTTP Archive) subpackages, developing and improving functionalities related to proxy API and HTTP logging. They implemented features like adding mobile martian options, fixing API socket issues, and adding reset and export functionalities to HAR logs. The contributions involved modifying proxy behavior, adding test cases, and refining logging mechanisms within the `martian` proxy library. The user also addressed build environment issues.
golangproxytestingmartianproxies
hnovikov/martian
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Martian is a library for building custom HTTP/S proxies
Contributions:22 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 6 months
proxiesproxymartian
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