Nikita Gashkov
Technical Lead at Exness
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolNikita Gashkov is a Technical Lead based in Warsaw with 11 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and distributed services, currently leading backend efforts at Exness. He specializes in Python microservices, API performance optimization and data modeling—previously boosting an Ethereum block explorer’s throughput from 1–2 RPS to 300 RPS via SQL and model redesign. Nikita has hands-on experience rescuing brittle codebases, shipping fast MVPs, and improving templating libraries upstream (notably contributing table and merge fixes to python-docx-template). Comfortable across the full backend stack, he pairs pragmatic engineering with measurable observability practices and a knack for turning complex document/reporting requirements into reliable automation. His academic background in computer-aided design and additive technologies hints at a systems-oriented, detail-driven approach to software architecture.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer-aided Design Systems, Master's degree Computer-aided Design Systems at ITMO University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (9)
regular-expression10
python10
document-processing10
text-processing9
jinja29
template-engine9
templater9
docx9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elapouya/python-docx-template
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Use a docx as a jinja2 template
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to improving the `python-docx-template` project by fixing table-related issues within the document generation process. They addressed bugs related to vertical and horizontal merging of table cells, particularly within nested tables. Their work involved modifying regular expressions and Python code to accurately handle complex table structures during template processing and to fix incompatibilities with Python 3 versions. They also added support for horizontal merge tags and corrected issues related to column handling and `gridSpan`.
templatedocxjinja2jinja2-template
nickgashkov/virtualspace
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
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