Igor Nikolaev
Software Engineer at Wolt
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Nikolaev is a software engineer with 10+ years of experience building and modernizing Java-based systems across fintech, e‑commerce, and consumer platforms, currently contributing at Wolt in Helsinki. He combines strong software design and architecture skills with hands-on implementation—from low-latency backends and ETL jobs to front-end integrations and cloud migrations. Igor has a track record of leading legacy refactors, automating builds and deployments, and onboarding teams to DevCloud and Maven ecosystems. He is passionate about performance and quality, demonstrated by contributions to the pyflame profiler where he improved features and test coverage. Comfortable working solo or in distributed teams, he favors Agile practices and continuous improvement. His background spans large enterprises and startups, and he brings a pragmatic blend of system-level thinking and coding craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Moscow State Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (Technical University)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (22)
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pytest10
python10
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mockito10
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java9
docker8
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debugging8
command-line7
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
uber-archive/pyflame
Apr 2018 - May 2018
🔥 Pyflame: A Ptracing Profiler For Python. This project is deprecated and not maintained.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Igor primarily focused on enhancing the `pyflame` project by adding new features and improving test coverage. Their contributions include adding a flag to disable line numbers, skipping a permissions test within Docker environments, and implementing a test specifically for the no-line-numbers functionality. They also fixed comments and improved test formatting, indicating a commitment to code quality and maintainability.
pythonptraceuwsgiflame-chartsfedora
inikolaev/docker-images
Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
Docker images
Contributions:36 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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