Nick Gorbikoff
Founder at Birica, Inc
Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Gorbikoff is a founder and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of hands-on experience across web development, DevOps, network administration, and IT management. He has led infrastructure overhauls and DevOps teams for enterprise clients, delivering data integration and private-label systems for Fortune 10–500 companies while generating over $18M in savings and new revenues. A pragmatic polyglot engineer, he’s fluent in Ruby/Rails and Crystal, comfortable across PHP, JavaScript/React, and numerous backend and networking technologies, and experienced running production stacks on Linux, AWS, and virtualized data centers. Nick combines strategic budgeting and vendor management with daily technical work—building custom tooling, migrating large user bases, and evangelizing documentation and operational best practices. Active in open source and entrepreneurship, he founded Birica and earlier web ventures, and brings a rare blend of frontline systems expertise and business-minded problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Economics, BS Computer Science Economics at DePaul University
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
htmx10
javascript-framework10
component-library10
form-objects10
html10
rails-app10
css10
server-side-rendering10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
rest10
rails10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
konung/fast-ruby
Oct 2017 - Oct 2024
:dash: Writing Fast Ruby :heart_eyes: -- Collect Common Ruby idioms.
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
eyescollectruby-gemdashrails
konung/comfy_imprint
Jul 2013 - Aug 2020
Distributed as a gem, relies on SimpleForm, while this is an engine, it's inteded for use with Comfortable Mexican Sofa, and it may work with other Rails apps, but is not tested for them. Why not comfy_contact - cause keeping track of ComfyContact::Contact.contact - hurts my head.
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 1 month
rails-apprailsappssimpleform
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