Kirill Nikolaev
Engineer at Namespace Labs
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolKirill Nikolaev is an experienced engineer with 16 years building reliable applications and infrastructure, currently working at Namespace Labs from Zurich. His background spans site reliability and consumer device software at Google and earlier engineering roles at Yandex and SPB, giving him deep expertise in production systems, Android, and embedded/mobile integrations. He has contributed to the core Flutter engine—fixing threading and memory issues, adding nullability annotations, and optimizing VSYNC tracing—highlighting a knack for low-level performance and concurrency work in a high-profile open-source project. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he combines hands-on debugging of race conditions with an appreciation for long-term maintainability across platform boundaries.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, IT, Computer science, Bachelor, IT, Computer science at The Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
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Github Skills (25)
mobile-development10
multithreading10
flutter-apps10
java10
javas10
thread10
hyper-threading10
android10
flutter-game10
threaded10
flutter10
debug9
debugging9
performance-optimization9
ubuntu6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
flutter/engine
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
The Flutter engine
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kirill primarily contributed to the Android implementation of the Flutter engine, addressing threading issues and memory management concerns related to the interaction between Flutter and the Android platform. They fixed a race condition within the `FlutterView` class, documented crucial threading constraints, and added nullability annotations to `MethodChannel` and `MethodCall` in the Android platform code. They also worked on improving performance by avoiding the generation of VSYNC trace events from common Flutter code.
flutterflutter-enginec-plus-plus
nichtverstehen/pyacrobatapi
Jul 2009 - Aug 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 6 years 2 months
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