Summary
Nick 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