Nick Smirnoff
Founder at PureGym
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Smirnoff is a founder and seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building secure, cloud-native platforms and identity solutions from Southampton, UK. He currently leads the Identity Server effort at PureGym, modernising authentication infrastructure with Duende, .NET, Kubernetes and Terraform while serving on the architectural council and an AI advocacy group. Previously he delivered security-focused cloud apps and internal frameworks at Netwrix and drove full‑stack platform work, mentoring juniors and introducing DevOps practices at Zupa. At Smiosoft he’s bootstrapping a platform to incubate multiple projects and pursue investment, blending hands-on engineering with product strategy. Known for finding vulnerabilities and improving developer experience, he combines practical security craftsmanship with curiosity about AI and systems architecture.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at University of HullBTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma Computer Science, BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma Computer Science at Wilberforce College
English, Russian
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Github Skills (22)
spotify10
subscriber9
wpf9
publisher8
windows7
stylelint7
boilerplate6
react6
styled-components6
webpack5
redux5
javascript5
website-design4
asp-net-core4
js3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hypzeh/hypzeh.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jun 2023
Personal website
Contributions:17 PRs, 150 pushes, 22 branches in 5 years 11 months
jsreactnextjswebsite-design
smiosoft/smiosoft.github.io
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020
Smiosoft website.
Contributions:9 PRs, 27 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 8 months
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