Nikita Belenkiy is a pragmatic software leader with 13+ years of experience rescuing and scaling products, building teams, and making tough technical decisions across finance, gaming, and travel domains. He began as a Java developer and still contributes hands‑on code across JVM, Python, and Go while leading distributed teams of 50+ and managing contractor ecosystems. Notable work includes low‑latency trading systems and exchange connectors, contributions to the XChange Java library for crypto exchanges, and launching production CI/CD and one‑click demo deployments for cloud environments. Comfortable operating internationally—from Russia to the UK, US, and Mexico—he excels at introducing structure and automation only where they deliver business value. Colleagues rely on him to tame technical debt and ship new products quickly without sacrificing stability.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
engineer Information systems and telecommunications, engineer Information systems and telecommunications at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
XChange is a Java library providing a streamlined API for interacting with 60+ Bitcoin and Altcoin exchanges providing a consistent interface for trading and accessing market data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:85 commits, 6 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikita's commits primarily focus on fixing connection issues and updating order book functionality within the xchange-bitmex module. This involved modifications to the BitmexStreamingService and BitmexStreamingMarketDataService, along with adjustments to the BitmexManualExample for testing. The user also addressed an NPE and improved the code to handle updates arriving before the initial data, indicating improvements to stability and data integrity. The commits also address order management features.
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