Nikita Kalinin
Solutions Architect at Sofia Stars
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Kalinin is a Solutions Architect with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering complex, high-load service-oriented platforms across fintech and marketplace domains. He combines hands-on expertise in Go and PHP with deep knowledge of distributed systems, Kafka/RabbitMQ messaging, Kubernetes, Helm and cloud-native observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK). A proven technical leader, he has led multiple teams, built cross-service libraries, and driven architecture choices from prototyping to production while coaching engineers and resolving cross-department blockers. Based in Sofia, he brings strong design sensibilities in OOP and patterns, pragmatic stack selection (Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, ElasticSearch) and a track record of owning the most critical system components. Notably, he repeatedly bridges engineering and business needs—participating in sales and technical pre-sales to translate requirements into scalable architectures.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Development, Master's degree Software Development at Donetsk National Technical University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (19)
bundle9
symfony-bundle9
swagger9
symfony9
rest9
php9
api9
swagger-ui9
openapi9
rest-api9
php-framework8
oas8
css8
javascript7
open-source7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
php-solution/std-lib
Apr 2017 - Oct 2017
This library contains frequently used php features
Contributions:19 commits, 40 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
phpphp-features
php-solution/swagger-ui-gen
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 28 pushes in 4 months
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