Nikita Biryukov is a pragmatic development team lead and backend engineer with eight years of experience building scalable, maintainable systems and guiding cross-functional teams from Moscow. He combines hands-on Python expertise—shipping microservices, migrations to Kubernetes, and observability stacks—with strong delivery discipline: backlog hygiene, sprint forecasting, and roadmap alignment. Nikita has repeatedly reduced lead time and deployment risk by standardizing backend configurations, introducing automated testing, and improving CI/CD performance. He excels at turning ambiguous product requirements into production-ready MVPs and has a track record of improving fault tolerance and cutting infrastructure costs. Beyond code, he invests in engineering culture through mentoring, architectural documentation (ADR/C4), and developer experience enhancements that propagate standards across organizations.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information technology, Master's degree, Information technology at MIREA - Russian Technological University
Bachelor's degree, Information technology, Bachelor's degree, Information technology at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)
Clustering and Deployment of ML model in Heroku using FLASK
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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Nikita Biryukov - Development Team Lead at Third Opinion AI