Nick Bondarenko
CEO at AurumDust
Limassol, Cyprus
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Top SchoolNick Bondarenko is a seasoned gaming technology leader and founder with over 18 years of experience building multiplayer games, publishing platforms, and developer-facing infrastructure. As CEO of AurumDust he led multiplatform launches and built a remote-first studio, and as VP of Products at Xsolla he scaled core GameTech products like Login, Launcher and a market-leading Web Shop used by 80% of top mobile titles. Previously as CTO and Head of Development he architected large-scale publishing platforms, anti-cheat and DRM systems, and a merchant-of-record payment stack that was later acquired. Nick combines hands-on engineering (starting as a senior Virtools developer) with product strategy and distributed team management, routinely shipping complex integrations for global partners. He is also an active Redis specialist in the open-source community and maintains tooling like Redis-memory-analyzer, reflecting a practical commitment to performance and observability. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, he blends technical depth with commercial outcomes—scaling products, teams, and revenues across the gaming ecosystem.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mastering Design Thinking, Mastering Design Thinking at MIT Sloan Executive EducationБакалавр, Сети связи и системы коммутации, Бакалавр, Сети связи и системы коммутации at Московский Технический Университет Связи и Информатики (МТУСИ)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
pcntl10
echo10
authentication10
websocket10
statistic10
profiling10
throw10
middleware10
permission10
acl10
memory-management10
ram10
micro-framework10
abac10
aggregate10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Redisplanet/redisplanet.github.io
Dec 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
misterion/ko-worker
Mar 2014 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 60 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 11 months
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