Summary
Nick Kugaevsky is a Technology Team Lead with 14 years of hands-on experience building full-stack Ruby on Rails systems and leading engineering teams across startups and large platforms. He currently architects authentication, SSO and personal data management services at Uzum, having previously driven integrations, geo and auth services and A/B testing at VK. A practical polyglot, he pairs deep Ruby/MVC and BDD expertise with modern frontend skills (Angular, Svelte, TypeScript) and a strong tooling workflow (webpack, git, CI). He’s delivered security-audited, privacy-aware systems and marketing integrations (CRM/CDP), bridging product and infra concerns. An active engineer since the Yandex era, he also maintains open-source projects on GitHub and brings an operator’s mindset from VoIP and VM tooling to large-scale web architectures.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate degree, Computer Programming, Associate degree, Computer Programming at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Политехнический Университет / Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
English, Russian