Nikita Balakirev
Staff Engineer at Workato
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Balakirev is a Staff Engineer with a decade of full‑stack web experience, known for shipping customer-focused features and improving platform architecture across startups and large teams. He blends deep front-end expertise in React/Angular/Vue and TypeScript with backend work in Python/Django and Go, and has led UI-kit, build-system and DX improvements that materially reduced engineering friction. At Workato and VK he drove high‑quality feature delivery, mentoring, and refactors while contributing to open-source projects like vkui. A regular technical writer and StackOverflow contributor, he also competes in programming contests (Telegram contests podium finisher) and builds Chrome extensions and performance-focused front‑ops tooling. Notably, his public code and articles reveal a practical focus on dependency injection, request tracking and avoiding injectable duplication in modern Angular apps.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of engineering - BE Information technologies and programming, Bachelor of engineering - BE Information technologies and programming at ITMO University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
6,499reputation
304kreached
102answers
7questions
webpack
top-5%
angular
top-5%
Github Skills (176)
cms10
displays10
scroll10
web-application10
testing10
web-performance10
angular2-component10
virtual-scroll10
javascript10
web-developer10
html10
angular10
cli10
typescript10
ghost10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nickbullock/gifster
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:88 commits, 8 PRs, 100 pushes in 5 months
chromegifanimationschrome-extension
nickbullock/gravity-runner
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 9 PRs, 46 pushes in 8 months
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