Mykyta Pedorich
Risk Engineer at Paidy
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolMykyta Pedorich is a risk engineer and backend specialist with a decade of experience designing and operating high-performance distributed systems, primarily using Scala and a Typelevel functional stack. He has a strong track record building resilient billing and real-time settlement pipelines at Paidy, and previously scaled data-processing microservices for data governance at Dathena. Comfortable across the full lifecycle—from architecture and refactoring legacy code to production deployment on AWS and Kafka-based streaming—he also brings practical DevOps skills demonstrated by home-manager contributions and system setup scripting. His open-source work includes secure e-payments integration and improving developer tooling, reflecting attention to security, reliability, and developer experience. Based in Tokyo, he combines deep functional-programming expertise with hands-on pragmatism in Rust, Go, Python, and infrastructure as code.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at National Aerospace University -'Kharkiv Aviation Institute'
Russian, English, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (23)
transaction10
javascript10
nix10
apidoc10
scripting10
finance10
configuration-management10
authentication10
user-authentication10
script10
api10
sh10
shell10
nixos9
error-handling9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zenmoney/ZenPlugins
Nov 2017 - May 2020
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mykyta primarily contributed to the `epayments` plugin within the repository, focusing on integrating e-payment functionality with ZenMoney. Their work involved implementing OTP (One-Time Password) support for authentication, adding error handling and more robust security checks, and optimizing existing code. Refactoring, and the adoption of a new transaction model were also undertaken. The user also made changes related to currency handling, specifically handling scenarios where the withdrawal currency differs from the account currency.
nix-community/home-manager
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 8 PRs, 54 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mykyta primarily focused on adding and maintaining modules within the home-manager configuration system. Their contributions included implementing the `ripgrep` and `rtx` (later replaced by `mise`) modules, which involved defining options, configurations, and integration with shell environments. They also made improvements to the tealdeer module, including removing an activation script and streamlining the configuration. Furthermore, the user's work included integrating shell scripting for system setup and testing.
nix-dotfilesnixosmaintainerhome-managerdotfiles
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