Nikita Cherniy
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at NODAR
Greater Hamburg Area Germany
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Top SchoolNikita Cherniy is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer in the Greater Hamburg Area with 20+ years of low-level systems experience and a 12-year focused career shipping performance-critical C++ and CUDA solutions across desktop, mobile, and embedded Arm/x86-64 platforms. He specializes in squeezing maximum throughput from real-time camera and lidar pipelines—authoring stereo vision, image-processing and GPGPU kernels and moving heavy work to background threads and CUDA to deliver multi-fold speedups. Comfortable across the full modern C++ spectrum (C++98 through draft C++26) and pragmatic about safety, he also integrates Rust for safety-critical components with zero-cost FFI. He’s built cross-platform visualization tools using Vulkan and Qt, championed company-wide profiling with visual performance graphs, and mentors teams on advanced C++ and GPGPU practices. Known for turning complex low-level challenges into clean, testable designs, he pairs deep optimization skill with strong documentation and customer-facing technical guidance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Internal Combustion Engines, Engineer's degree, Internal Combustion Engines at Volgograd State Technical University
English, Русский, German
Github Skills (104)
egui10
xbox10
cpp10
game-development10
game-engine10
imgui10
api10
electron10
typescript10
cross-platform10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
editor9
rendering9
validation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nikitablack/directx-12
Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
nikitablack/vulkan_by_example_2
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:101 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 1 month
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