Ivan Sotnikov
Senior Software Engineer, Architect (Golang, Rust) at Liga.io
Bratislava, Region of Bratislava, Slovakia
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Top SchoolIvan Sotnikov is a Senior Software Engineer and Architect based in Bratislava with nearly a decade of production experience building high-performance backend systems in Go and Rust. He combines end-to-end ownership—from architecture and prototyping to hands-on implementation and optimization—with practical DevOps and AWS expertise to scale systems for startups and high-traffic services. His background spans C/C++, Node.js, and frontend frameworks (React/Vue), enabling him to bridge infrastructure, services, and user-facing components. A big Rust enthusiast who “sometimes writes good code,” he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and reliability informed by earlier work in GIS, embedded navigation, and containerized microservices. Open to long-term collaborations, he’s known for improving foundations and turning complex scaling challenges into robust, operable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
English, Russian, Slovak
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (166)
twitch10
minecraft10
render10
egui10
chat10
replay10
rust10
vod10
immediate-mode10
clip10
imgui9
playing9
streaming9
game-development9
clion-plugin9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
IS2511/offline-frog
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Simple discord bot for trigger-based notification from twitch chat
Contributions:82 commits, 1 push in 1 month
IS2511/SCServo
Dec 2018 - Oct 2021
SCS/SMS servo library for Arduino
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 years 9 months
scsservosmsarduino
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