Nikita Matveenko is a Senior Software Engineer based in Haarlem with 11+ years of hands-on experience building distributed, high-throughput systems on the JVM. He specializes in Scala (Typelevel/Lightbend/ZIO), Akka, Cassandra, Kafka and Kubernetes, and has led teams of 5–20 developers while acting as product owner for a backend gaming platform. Nikita blends deep technical craftsmanship with pragmatic product thinking—designing game-agnostic platform features, improving performance at scale, and enabling faster, safer delivery for dependent teams. Known for a “can do” attitude and out-of-the-box problem solving, he proactively shares knowledge and raises engineering standards through code reviews, tooling, and mentorship. Comfortable working autonomously or as a collaborative lead, he combines strong communication and empathy with a proven track record of shipping resilient distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Transporta un Sakaru Instituts
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Nikita Matveenko - Senior Software Engineer at Coralogix