Nikita Kovalev
Fullstack Software Engineer at AutoScout24
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolNikita Kovalev is a Fullstack Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building highly available, scalable services and leading backend projects from prototype to production. He has designed and optimized systems handling millions of users and sessions using technologies like Scala, Kafka, Cassandra, ClickHouse and AWS, and brings practical Big Data expertise from working with 100+ TB products and Spark ecosystems. Beyond architecture and code, he emphasizes long-lived service design—observability, onboarding, growth planning and process improvement—so teams can sustain and evolve systems with low friction. He combines hypothesis-driven, data-informed experimentation with a deep curiosity about why technologies work, not just how, which guides pragmatic trade-offs and tooling choices. Based in Munich, he also has a track record of mentoring and recruiting to scale engineering teams.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist (Bachelor) Computers Computer Systems and Networks, Specialist (Bachelor) Computers Computer Systems and Networks at National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
Russian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (112)
lapis10
moonscript10
encoder10
tornado10
api10
rest10
json10
decoder10
music9
python9
ujson9
python-bindings9
java9
polyglot9
aot9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maizy/PonyLib
May 2010 - Dec 2021
Fb2 library with CLI & web UI
Contributions:9 releases, 218 commits, 10 PRs in 11 years 9 months
golangweb-uifb2-libraryfb2terminal
maizy/e5372
Jan 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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