Summary
Nikita Makarov is an engineering manager with a decade in IT and eight years of hands-on leadership, currently scaling teams and technical delivery at Positive Technologies. He has led large cross-functional organizations at VK and Yandex, owning architecture and end-to-end delivery for SaaS, on-prem systems and ML data-labeling platforms, and drove measurable business outcomes including multi-fold revenue and growth. Technically fluent across Python, Go, React, Kubernetes and large-scale data stacks (Kafka, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL), he focuses on automation, debt reduction and operational excellence to accelerate time-to-market. A builder of production ML/AI labeling infrastructure and automated workflows, he combines product-minded engineering with hiring and mentorship that doubles team capacity. Based in Saint Petersburg and educated in Business Informatics, he pairs systems-level thinking with a knack for translating complex requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Business Informatics, Master's degree Business Informatics at Higher School of Economics
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Voronezh State University
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