Nickolai Sheika
Engineering Manager at GetYourGuide
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNickolai Sheika is an experienced engineering manager based in Berlin with a decade of hands-on and leadership experience building and scaling mobile and cross-platform teams. He has led multiple squads at Delivery Hero, owned Rider App release processes across eight teams, and built a Help Center and CMS from scratch that materially improved company KPIs. Known for combining hands-on coding with people leadership, he improves code quality, reduces incidents, and mentors engineering leaders. He runs hiring pipelines, negotiates third-party integrations, and manages on-call and incident resolution for high-impact productions. Now at GetYourGuide, he continues to focus on consistent delivery, incident management, and structuring teams for scale. A former lead iOS developer who rose to head of development, he brings deep mobile expertise plus pragmatic operational rigor.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems and Networks, Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems and Networks at Donetsk State Technical University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (42)
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
carthage9
face7
codeless7
validation7
form-validation7
prototyping7
appcenter7
firebase6
stubbing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Alterplay/APValidators
Apr 2016 - Feb 2018
Codeless solution for form validation in iOS!
Contributions:1 PR, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
codelessiosvalidationform-validation
Alterplay/APDataSources
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:43 pushes, 3 branches, 16 tags in 8 months
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