Nikita Nefedov
Software Engineer IV at Picnic Technologies
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Nefedov is a Software Engineer IV based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience building and scaling production systems, from monolith test-suite rewrites to organization-wide zero-downtime deployments. He has a strong track record of leading multi-team projects—co-founding and growing a team from 2 to 9 engineers—and delivering major latency and CI-time reductions that unlocked new product capabilities. At Picnic he introduced headless AI workflows into CI and drove infrastructure improvements that continue to improve reliability. Earlier roles include performance-critical work at Namshi and cost-saving cloud/database migrations at BillForward, and he contributes to open-source security tooling such as the widely used namshi/jose PHP JWS/JWE library. Colleagues rely on him as a go-to architect and mentor who balances deep technical refactors with pragmatic product-focused delivery.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Undergrad, IT, Undergrad, IT at RSUH
English, Russian
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Github Skills (12)
php10
json-web-signature10
base64-encoding10
cryptography9
unit-testing8
caching6
oop6
doctrine-orm6
apache6
doctrine-odm6
symfony6
mysql6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
namshi/jose
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
JSON Object Signing and Encryption library for PHP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily focused on improving the `Namshi/jose` library, a PHP library for JSON Web Signature (JWS) and Encryption. Their contributions included adding url-safe Base64 encoding to improve security. They fixed bugs and improved existing base64 encoding, ensuring the token generated with the old base64 works with the new one. Additionally, the user made code style corrections and fixed a "typ" mistake within the code.
encryptionphp
nikita2206/php-src
Oct 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:48 commits, 72 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 6 months
phpinterpreter
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