Nikita Khristinin
Principal Software Engineer at Elastic
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNikita Khristinin is a Principal Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience building high-quality frontend and security-focused solutions. He combines deep React/TypeScript expertise with backend skills in Node.js to deliver end-to-end features, most recently contributing to Elastic’s Kibana security backend and rule-based alert enrichment. A pragmatic tech lead and mentor, he has transformed teams to own quality through E2E/integration testing and introduced OKRs and tooling that speed delivery. His background spans fintech onboarding flows, component libraries, and performance-driven product features, showing a consistent focus on developer experience and maintainable architecture. Notably, he has made tangible security and event-log improvements in a high-profile open source project (Elastic/kibana), reflecting both product impact and open-source collaboration. He is detail-oriented, customer-focused, and passionate about helping teams grow while shipping robust, production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist of Information Secrutiry Computer and Information Systems Security / Information Security, Specialist of Information Secrutiry Computer and Information Systems Security / Information Security at Far Eastern State Transport University
Русский, Английский
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Github Skills (13)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
engine10
aws-elasticsearch10
back-end-development10
rule-engine10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:488 reviews, 47 commits, 284 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the security solution backend functionality, with a focus on enhancing rule-based alert enrichment. They fixed bugs related to filtering, ensuring correct processing of rules that use saved queries and custom filters. They worked on the creation of new features for the user interface (UI) side, and on enhancements for security features. They also made modifications to the event log and backfill job.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
hrnik/lifecalendar
Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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