Nikita Korolev

Russia

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Nikita Korolev is a results-driven software engineer with ~2 years of professional experience building distributed, low-latency systems and scalable microservices. He has hands-on expertise in Java concurrency, Kafka, Redis and S3-compatible storage, having built a 9-microservice platform with a real-time news feed that sustained ~500ms latency for over 1M daily updates. Nikita has repeatedly improved performance and maintainability—reducing processing times by 60%, shrinking legacy codebases, and splitting monoliths to cut response times by ~30%—while driving high test coverage and performing hundreds of code reviews. Comfortable across DevOps, CI/CD and Agile practices, he also mentors juniors and shapes team conventions. With a strong applied-math background and graduate studies in software engineering, he combines analytical rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver resilient, production-ready systems. An uncommon detail: he built thread-safe high-throughput components (URL shortener, file storage) that balance atomic concurrency primitives with Redis-backed reliability.

2 years of coding experience

5 years of employment as a software developer

Master's degree, Mathematics, Re-registered in a different educational institution (MIET), Master's degree, Mathematics, Re-registered in a different educational institution (MIET) at The University of Manchester

Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Applied Mathematics, GPA - 3.50/5.00, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Applied Mathematics, GPA - 3.50/5.00 at National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)

A-levels, Russian, Mathematics, Further Mathematics - A*AB, A-levels, Russian, Mathematics, Further Mathematics - A*AB at Loretto School

IGCSEs, ICT, Russian, Mathematics, English (first language) - AAAB, IGCSEs, ICT, Russian, Mathematics, English (first language) - AAAB at British International School Moscow 7

Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, GPA 3.30/4.00, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, GPA 3.30/4.00 at Final International University

Computer Training Center "Specialist" at Bauman Moscow State Technical University

English, Russian

Github Skills (18)

kubernetes10

virtualization9

generics8

contract8

filter8

reflect7

generic-programming7

recurly7

slice7

typesafe7

lru7

godoc7

lodash6

golang6

foldable6

Programming languages (3)

SmartyShellGo

Github contributions (5)

universal-itengineer/release-test

Apr 2024 - Nov 2024

Contributions:2 releases, 42 PRs, 48 pushes in 7 months

deckhouse/virtualization

Jan 2024 - Apr 2025

Virtualization module for Deckhouse Kubernetes Platform

Contributions:3 releases, 167 reviews, 246 PRs in 1 year 2 months

deckhousedeckhouse-modulevirtualization

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