Nikita Mezhenskyi
Software Engineer I at Canonical
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Mezhenskyi is a software engineer with five years of experience building system-level and cloud-native software, currently contributing to Canonical’s LXD team. He has a strong background in system programming, virtualization, Linux, networking and databases, and has implemented guest-side virtualization integrations and a plugin system for ArcHPC using Virtio-Serial and Protocol Buffers. Nikita’s experience spans the full stack—from a process/device manager alternative to systemd and SLURM automation to web dashboards and WebSocket-to-TCP proxies—demonstrating versatility across infrastructure and user-facing components. He combines practical system design and microservices knowledge with rigorous documentation practices (Doxygen) and hands-on work with libvirt and low-level APIs. Based in Old Toronto, he brings a pragmatic, delivery-focused approach and a proven ability to bridge virtualized environments and cloud orchestration.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Software Development, Bachelor of Technology Software Development at Seneca Polytechnic
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (22)
lxd10
criu10
virtual-machine10
lxc10
go10
terraform9
terraform-provider9
cache-storage9
snap8
caching7
http7
packaging7
ed255197
continuous-integration7
grpc7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nmezhenskyi/lxd
Mar 2025 - Jul 2026
Powerful system container and virtual machine manager
Contributions:532 pushes, 84 branches in 1 year 4 months
nmezhenskyi/rcs
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Remote Caching Server is a versatile key-value data store accessible through Native, gRPC, and HTTP APIs.
Contributions:226 commits, 28 PRs, 132 pushes in 5 months
cachinggrpckey-valuecache-storagego
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