Nick Shmakov
Senior Software Engineer at Xpansiv
Laguna Niguel, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Shmakov is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of professional experience designing and maintaining critical back-end systems, APIs, and performance-optimized services. Based in Laguna Niguel, he has led migrations from legacy platforms to modern LAMP and cloud-based deployments, including moving CRM and VM workloads to Docker and Google Cloud. He’s managed remote engineering teams, defined architecture and stacks, and instituted code review and reporting practices to improve reliability and observability. Earlier work includes building large multi-country exchange program databases, XML-RPC integrations with government systems, and scalable search and batch-processing pipelines. Nick combines hands-on systems work with operational discipline—disaster recovery, monitoring, and batch automation are recurring strengths that keep production systems resilient. He brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to turning complex legacy environments into maintainable, cloud-ready platforms.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Ural Federal University
Github Skills (36)
displays10
points9
interaction9
sentry8
pentesting8
django8
honeypot8
php8
clip8
c-programming8
system-programming8
monitor8
monitoring7
security7
windows7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Shmakov/php54-fpm
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
Shmakov/Honeypot
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Low interaction honeypot that displays real time attacks
Contributions:62 commits, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
interactionsecurity-toolsdisplayssecuritylow-interaction
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