Summary
Nikita Kabardin is a lead engineer based in Paris with 11 years of experience building end-to-end products across frontend, backend, infrastructure and mobile. He combines startup founding instincts with staff-level consulting expertise, having shaped front-end architecture and UX consistency for companies from CloudQuery and Warner Bros. Discovery to Spotify and major game studios. His work blends pragmatic engineering—introducing incremental TypeScript migrations and AST-based code-quality tooling—with deep usability focus, aligning UX decisions to technical architecture and AI capabilities. Comfortable in fast-moving, cross-disciplinary teams, he has shipped production UI for high‑stakes environments including live games and Olympic-scale scheduling tools. Known for mentoring and creating shared UI foundations, he quietly pairs curiosity about low-level performance with product-level sense to reduce friction for users and teams alike.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, French, Swedish