Nikita Kochetkov
Senior Software Engineer at VK
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Koval is a researcher and co-founder/technical lead at the JetBrains-backed AppGlass startup with eight years of experience in concurrent systems and Java/Kotlin development. He focuses on synchronization and communication primitives for Kotlin Coroutines and improving Lincheck for testing concurrent data structures, work that feeds into his PhD research. Nikita has practical industry experience building concurrency testing tools and deadlock detectors, and he has published research on concurrent algorithms (EuroPar’19) following an internship at ISTA. He teaches Concurrent Programming at ITMO University and mentors students, bridging academic rigor with production-grade tooling. Based in Saint Petersburg and affiliated with institutions across Europe, he combines hands-on engineering, open research, and startup leadership in the concurrency space.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Университет ИТМО
Github Skills (20)
resharper8
codeclimate8
jetbrains8
sarif8
java7
php7
continuous-integration7
refactoring7
kotlin7
qodana6
python6
code-review6
static-analysis6
javascript6
typescript5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
niki999922/Homework_cpp_3_term
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:56 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
niki999922/Algo-DM-laba
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Labs from Algorithms and Data Structures course and Discrete Math 2 years course in ITMO.
Contributions:86 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
mathitmoalgorithms-and-data-structuresdiscretedatastructures-algorithms
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