Ivan Nikolaenko
Software Engineer at Unikie
Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Nikolaenko is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in embedded Linux, kernel driver development, and system reliability, currently at Unikie in Tampere. His background spans bare-metal and RTOS work through to Linux BSP optimization and cloud storage reliability, showing a rare full-stack embedded-to-cloud fluency. Ivan has repeatedly reduced boot times and image sizes while integrating customer applications and maintaining observability with tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Comfortable across hardware and software — from PCB design to kernel internals — he brings practical engineering depth informed by a Master's in Computer Software Engineering. Colleagues value his curiosity-driven approach: he deliberately avoids narrow specialization, preferring projects that let him bridge low-level performance tuning and higher-level system integration.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU)
Russian, English
Github Skills (23)
nixos-configuration10
linux10
power-management10
routeros10
armv710
nix9
hardware9
nvidia-jetson9
nixos9
arm8
matrix8
nixpkgs8
boot8
nvidia8
spectrum8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
unbel13ver/ghaf
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Documentation for TII SSRC Common Tech - https://tiiuae.github.io/ghaf/
Contributions:3 PRs, 134 pushes, 41 branches in 2 years
unbel13ver/nixpkgs
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:21 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 7 months
nixosnix-packages
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