Nick Uraltsev
Staff Software Engineer at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Uraltsev is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with two decades of software experience and over a decade in senior infrastructure roles building resilient, large-scale systems. He’s helped design core streaming and event platforms at Stripe and Chime, architecting Kafka/Flink and Kinesis-based pipelines, centralized Protobuf tooling, and developer-facing frameworks that reduce operational toil. A hands-on leader, he has managed and mentored cross-functional teams while shipping backend, frontend, and sync clients across startups and enterprises. His open-source contributions include significant improvements to axios—adding instantiability and TypeScript typings—demonstrating a blend of pragmatic API design and type-safe engineering. With a master’s in applied mathematics, he combines rigorous problem-solving with deep production experience across Go, Scala, Python, and cloud-native technologies.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Applied Mathematics, Master’s Degree, Applied Mathematics at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
react-native10
es6-promise10
http-header10
typescript10
redux10
axios10
http-client10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
ajax9
rest9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
axios/axios
Oct 2015 - Apr 2018
Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 177 commits, 126 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nick significantly enhanced the axios library by introducing instantiability, allowing for the creation of custom axios instances. These changes included restructuring the core `axios` function and implementing helper methods for various request types. Moreover, the user updated the TypeScript definitions to accurately reflect these changes, ensuring type safety for developers using the library. Further contributions included the implementation of a helper function to combine URLs and refactoring to rename a creation method.
browserxmlhttprequestnode-jshttp-clientjavascript
nickuraltsev/finity
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
A finite state machine library for Node.js and the browser with a friendly configuration DSL.
Contributions:14 releases, 188 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 4 months
finite-statebrowserfsm-librarynode-jsfsm
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