Nikita Galaiko
Founding Software Engineer at Cerve
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolNikita Galaiko is a founding software engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack products and developer tools from Gothenburg, Sweden. He has repeatedly joined early-stage ventures—co-founding GitButler and Sturdy (YC W21) and currently helping build Cerve—bringing a maker’s instinct to product-focused engineering. His background spans backend systems in Go and Rust, desktop/web UIs with Svelte, and shipping features like virtual branch management in the GitButler client. At companies from Tink and Opera to logistics innovator Einride, he has balanced hands-on coding with product ownership across the stack. A Computer Science graduate from the Higher School of Economics, he pairs startup grit with an open-source mindset and a track record of turning developer-facing problems into polished, shipped solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
English, Swedish, Russian
Github Skills (5)
git10
rust10
svelte10
github9
tauri9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gitbutlerapp/gitbutler
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
The GitButler version control client, backed by Git, powered by Tauri/Rust/Svelte
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the GitButler client, working on various virtual branch features. Their commits included code changes related to managing and applying branch ownership, along with improvements to the branch interface. They also worked on the core logic for committing changes to virtual branches. Furthermore, the user was also responsible for the creation of API calls used in the frontend.
tauri
ngalaiko/miniboard
Aug 2019 - Dec 2021
Simple feeds reader.
Contributions:5 reviews, 1206 commits, 118 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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