Summary
Nikita Dolgov is a senior software engineer based in San Francisco with 15+ years building data-intensive, distributed JVM systems—from a distributed OLAP engine to real-time ingestion and interactive time-series analytics. He specializes in performant, reliable SaaS backend and data platforms, owning greenfield development, large refactors, and query engine/storage/ETL design across Java, Scala, Kotlin and modern cloud stacks on AWS. His recent work spans KafkaStreams and Java17 real-time ingestion at Disney and Spark/Delta-based pipelines at Roku and Joom, while he also contributes to full-stack TypeScript/React frontends. Comfortable across low-level storage (Lucene, Parquet, neo4j) and streaming/ML platforms, he brings uncommon depth in query execution and columnar transport layers informed by early OLAP engine work. Pragmatic and systems-focused, he pairs production-grade engineering with a curiosity for end-to-end product impact.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS MS Electrical Engineering, BS MS Electrical Engineering at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)