Summary
Nikita Andrikanis is a software engineer and team lead based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building and operationalizing production systems at Meta. He blends hands-on full-stack development with security-focused tooling, having built Python and shell automation for network threat analysis and Elastic Stack integrations during his time at UC Davis. At Meta he progressed from software engineer to team lead via TEKsystems, demonstrating both technical depth and leadership in large-scale engineering environments. Comfortable across backend automation, NLP experimentation, and incident response, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and a bias for shipping reliable systems. A UC Davis computer science graduate, he pairs academic foundations with practical experience in security-aware engineering that often surfaces in cross-functional, operational projects.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis