Nikita Kalyanov
Member Of Technical Staff at Databricks
Nicosia, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Kalyanov is a Member of Technical Staff and backend-focused software engineer with 7 years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer-facing infrastructure. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Neon (serverless Postgres), improving reliability, IPv6 support, and control-plane integrations, and brings strong backend and DevOps chops from roles at Neon and Databricks. Previously he drove production OpenStack-based B2B cloud platforms, delivering performance optimizations, distributed billing services, and observable systems that materially reduced support load and sped time-to-market. Comfortable across Python, Go, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, he blends data-driven decision-making with pragmatic engineering to ship resilient systems. Based in Nicosia, Cyprus, he pairs formal training in economics/statistics and applied informatics with hands-on cloud engineering, often tackling infrastructure edge-cases that improve scalability and operational safety.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Economics & Statistics, Bachelor's degree Economics & Statistics at Higher School of EconomicsComputer Programming, Computer Programming at 42 ParisMaster's degree Applied Informatics, Master's degree Applied Informatics at Tolyatti State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (13)
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
rust10
api10
postgresql10
devops10
apidoc10
serverless9
ipv68
dockers7
kubernetes-pods7
docker7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
neondatabase/neon
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 2 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily focused on back-end and infrastructure-related tasks within the Neon serverless Postgres repository. They contributed to configuring the pageserver by passing availability zone information, and improved management API interactions by setting content types explicitly and passing JWT authentication tokens. Furthermore, the user implemented an API for terminating compute instances, and made adjustments to support IPv6 environments and HTTP methods. These changes reflect their role in improving the system's reliability, scalability, and integration with control plane services.
neonrustserverlessautoscalingoffer
nikitakalyanov/k8s-conformance
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
🧪CNCF K8s Conformance Working Group
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
k8s-conformanceconformancek8skubernetescncf
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