Ilya Nikulin is a pragmatic backend-focused software developer with 9 years of experience building high-load web services across fintech, retail, e-commerce and performance marketing. He specializes in system architecture and microservices implemented in Go and PHP, and has repeatedly delivered cost-saving payment and returns improvements at scale (e.g., mechanisms that saved tens of thousands EUR/month and recovered +14K NMV/year). Comfortable across the full lifecycle in Agile teams, he also mentors teammates, runs code reviews, and led IAM and external API integrations for 10k+ users. Beyond backend systems he has shipped high-traffic consumer platforms (100M+ daily impressions) and improved operational reliability through incident management and increased test coverage. Curious about software architecture and pragmatic engineering trade-offs, he blends hands-on coding with measurable business impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Contributions:94 PRs, 219 pushes, 115 branches in 1 year 4 months
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