Nikita Akimov
Frontend Team Lead at Yandex
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNikita Akimov is a Frontend Team Lead with 12 years of experience building and leading web products at scale, currently driving frontend architecture and delivery at Yandex Real Estate. He combines hands-on React, TypeScript, and Node.js engineering with people leadership—hiring and growing teams, mentoring juniors, and owning planning and retrospectives while still shipping complex features. His background spans SEO engineering, Core Web Vitals performance improvements, large-scale refactors, and building production microservices such as redirect logic for canonicalization. Known for balancing long-term code health with rapid product delivery, he has led redesigns and cross-functional initiatives that supported ~300K DAU across platforms. Based in Novi Sad, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset from an automation engineering education and a track record of turning legacy codebases into maintainable, high-performance products.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Автоматизированные системы управления, Bachelor's degree, Автоматизированные системы управления at Национальный Исследовательский Технологический Университет - «МИСиС» (бывший Московский Государственный Институт Стали и Сплавов)
Github Skills (15)
summernote9
wysiwyg9
statistics9
infinite-lists7
nodejs-library7
javascript7
geocoder6
npm-package5
infinite-scroll4
react4
geocoding4
jquery3
nodejs3
tooltip2
teamspeak1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LandGame/xlrstats-web-v3
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:6 pushes in 13 days
game-statisticsstatisticswebinterface
XLRstats/xlrstats-web-v3
Mar 2014 - Oct 2016
Webinterface for the game statistics plugin for BigBrotherBot - xlrstats
Contributions:41 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
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