Nikita Mikhaylov is a Director of Engineering based in Amsterdam with a decade of experience building and leading teams focused on distributed systems and high-performance data platforms. He progressed from software engineer to engineering manager and now director at ClickHouse, bringing hands-on expertise in the database and analytics domain honed also during a stint at Yandex. A MIPT-trained computer scientist with further specialization in Big Data Infrastructure from Yandex School, he blends rigorous academic grounding with practical system design and operational experience. He has taught concurrency at MIPT, signaling a deep interest in parallelism and low-level correctness that informs his leadership of scalable architectures.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Big Data Infrastructure, Big Data Infrastructure at Yandex School of Data Analysis
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Nikita Mikhaylov - Director Of Engineering at ClickHouse