Kirill Nikolaev
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Lightspeed Commerce
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKirill Nikolaev is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, cost-efficient systems and developer-friendly workflows. Based in Ottawa, he combines strong full-stack chops (Node.js, Go) with deep GCP, Terraform and Kubernetes expertise to deliver scalable production pipelines and resilient services. At Lightspeed he drove a 95% cost reduction by migrating a key dataset from MongoDB to BigQuery and cut SRE toil by simplifying Postgres access and embedding SLOs into Helm charts. He has a track record of automating infrastructure, improving observability with Prometheus/Grafana, and turning postmortems into durable reliability improvements. Known for pragmatic documentation and onboarding that reduces team dependencies, Kirill blends hands-on engineering with a knack for operational cost optimization.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 86, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 86 at University of HaifaStrategic Relationship Marketing, Strategic Relationship Marketing at George Brown College
English, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (20)
input-validation6
vpc5
javascript4
nodejs4
google-cloud3
aws3
appengine3
google3
google-cloud-platform3
testing3
typescript3
gcp3
validation3
terraform2
swagger2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
quantum-app/codefresh-playground
Dec 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
quantum-app/actions-playground
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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