Mikhail Nitsenko is a Staff Software Engineer based in Almaty with two decades of IT experience and a track record as a former CTO who built enterprise-grade platforms and led teams through full product lifecycles. He specializes in back-end systems and semantic-layer analytics—contributing to the popular open-source Cube project by extending meta endpoints, integrating cube definitions, and adding tests for Catalog/Compiler APIs. At SmartEx he drove architecture, microservices adoption, and a proprietary platform that delivered multiple revenue-generating projects, while earlier roles spanned IoT, CRM, and large-scale integrations with ERP systems. Mikhail combines hands-on coding with product-minded leadership, balancing fast iteration and reusable architecture for complex customer requirements. An understated strength is his sustained focus on testable API design and schema transformation that bridges developer ergonomics with production reliability.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Gymnazium 134
BS, Electronic systems, BS, Electronic systems at Almaty University of Power Engineering and Telecommunications
📊 Cube — Universal semantic layer platform for AI, BI, spreadsheets, and embedded analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:23 reviews, 24 commits, 42 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail primarily contributed to enhancing the meta response for the catalog, indicating work on API gateway functionality and data schema processing. This included extending the meta endpoint, adding new fields like 'fileName' and 'refreshKey', and integrating cube definitions. The user also added tests for these new functionalities, specifically focusing on the transformation of meta extended helpers and the CompilerApi.
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Contributions:43 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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Mikhail Nitsenko - Staff Software Engineer at Cube