Nikita Grishko
Engineering Manager at PandaDoc
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolNikita Grishko is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building developer platforms and infrastructure across gaming, health tech, and SaaS, now leading DevEx and Automation at PandaDoc from Warsaw. He combines hands-on systems work—migrations from GitLab to GitHub Enterprise, Kubernetes/EKS rollouts, and implementing LGTM observability stacks—with team leadership and career development for engineers. His background includes scaling authentication for millions of users at Wargaming and enabling ML-backed health services at Flo, giving him deep experience with high-throughput, privacy-sensitive systems. An active contributor to pydantic, he brings practical open-source insight into type-driven validation and schema design. He focuses on making developers more productive through tooling, automation, and selective AI adoption, while keeping close to code and infrastructure to ensure solutions are both robust and usable.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Theory of Informatics, Master’s Degree Theory of Informatics at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian
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Github Skills (18)
data-validation10
python10
typehinting10
type-checking10
pydantic10
decimals9
decimal-numbers9
schema-design9
schema9
schema-org9
decimal9
pytest8
django-admin6
celerybeat6
orm6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
pydantic/pydantic
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
Data validation using Python type hints
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 19 commits, 16 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the development of the pydantic library by introducing new features and functionalities. Their work involved adding options to existing classes like `ConstrainedStr` and `constr`, implementing new types such as `ConstrainedFloat`, `Decimal`, and `URLStr`, and enhancing type annotations. They also refactored error handling and improved schema generation, demonstrating a focus on expanding the library's capabilities and improving its usability.
pythonvalidationparsingjson-schemapydantic
Gr1N/setup-poetry
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Poetry
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 35 commits in 3 years
githubaction-workflowpythonsetup-actions
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