Nikita Melnikov
Frontend Developer Research And Development Founding Engineer at OpenReplay
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolNikita Melnikov is a Frontend Developer and founding R&D engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance web and mobile applications from prototype to production. Based in Paris, he leads frontend architecture and owns critical libraries and a Chrome extension for OpenReplay, contributing notable UI improvements, offline session recording, and a 30% smaller bundle that speeds builds while cutting processing costs by up to 50%. He specializes in TypeScript and React, has shipped cross-platform session recording libraries for JS and iOS, and routinely fixes memory leaks and refactors legacy code to improve maintainability. Previously he helped scale features at major marketplaces and logistics platforms in Russia, mentoring juniors and establishing CI/CD and component libraries. An active open-source contributor, his work on the widely used OpenReplay project focuses on making session replay and product analytics reliable and self-hostable. A chemical engineering graduate turned software builder, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to frontend performance and developer workflows.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Chemical Engineering at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University)
English, Русский, French
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
antd10
front-end-development10
ant10
react10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openreplay/openreplay
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Session replay, cobrowsing and product analytics you can self-host. Ideal for reproducing issues and iterating on your product.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 108 reviews, 752 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikita contributed to the user interface of the OpenReplay project, implementing new features and improving existing ones using TypeScript, React, and Ant Design. Their work included design changes for the timezone selector, integration of a new audio player, and enhancements to the dashboards by adding functionality for the session's heatmaps. The user's commits are focused on improving the front-end experience and overall functionality.
golangreactpythonredisreplay
nick-delirium/lemmy-fennec
Jun 2023 - Apr 2024
Arctius is a simple and accessible mobile client for Lemmy
Contributions:26 releases, 1 PR, 110 pushes in 10 months
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