Nik Mitikov
Performance Detective at makingitfaster.tips
Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolNik Mitikov is a Performance Detective with nine years of engineering experience focused on squeezing every millisecond out of web and cloud systems. He has led performance practice and architecture efforts at Sitecore, Nodes, and Copenhagen Mist and now helps build historically fast systems at Relewise and makingitfaster.tips. Nik pairs deep diagnostics—illustrated by contributions to Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime where he improved testability and stability—with pragmatic TDD and low-hardware approaches to deliver reliable, high-throughput services. Comfortable hunting CPU/memory leaks, deadlocks and DB bottlenecks across on‑prem and cloud environments, he also brings operational empathy from decades of L3/L4 support. Based in Ukraine, he blends hands-on backend engineering with an unusual obsession for measurable speed and less-compute solutions.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Dnipro State University
English
Stackoverflow
523reputation
41kreached
37answers
4questions
Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
develop10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
debug9
debugging9
iis6
sitecore6
asp-net-mvc6
sos6
model-view-controller6
windbg6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/clrmd
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime is a set of APIs for introspecting processes and dumps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 29 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Nik contributed to the Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime project by implementing unit tests and improving existing code. They introduced a unit test project and added tests to address issues with internal method generation, specifically related to mocking frameworks. The user also refactored code, including optimizing object transformation, and added contracts for various ClrObject APIs to improve code reliability. The work focused on improving the stability and testability of the project's core functionalities.
dotnetruntimeetwmicrosoftdumps
mitikov/SecondLifeForFastQueries
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Make fast queries be alive again
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
sqlalivequeries
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