Nikita Kotikov
Senior Software Engineer at 8allocate
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Kotikov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bucharest with 9 years of experience and 7+ years focused on Go back-end development, specializing in breaking monoliths into resilient microservices and building distributed systems. He has driven reliability and cost improvements across payments, billing and booking domains—implementing idempotent execution models, multi-provider payment integrations, and event-driven communication to replace complex frameworks. Comfortable with both hands-on engineering and customer-facing conversations, he translates business needs into technical designs and clear documentation. Nikita also brings practical DevOps experience—reducing AWS costs, adding observability with Datadog and ElasticSearch, and integrating AI into developer workflows—showing a pragmatic focus on operability as well as architecture.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (13)
container-image9
specification9
oci-distribution9
helm8
kubernetes7
docker7
vendor7
html1
http-server1
http1
linux1
server1
unix1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
onidoru/zot
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
zot - A production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image registry (purely based on OCI Distribution Specification)
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 22 days
Onidoru/ComputerGraphics
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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