Nikita Popov
Technical Lead Web Platform Team
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Popov is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building full-stack TypeScript/JavaScript platforms and leading small, high-impact teams from Ukraine. He currently heads the Web Platform team at Solidgate and previously led merchant experience and migration efforts, driving adoption of Vite, Vitest, pnpm, gRPC/BUF and monorepos to boost developer productivity. A co-founder and former CTO, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on work across React, Node.js, Go and serverless architectures, and has taught a popular React course. An active open-source enthusiast, he has contributed to formatjs, fastify, parcel and webpack plugins, and favors pragmatic automation—evident in his i18n and CI/CD initiatives that reduced manual overhead. Always ready for long-term commitment, he prefers compact teams that move fast and prioritize sustainable engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering, Master's degree Software Engineering at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Ukrainian, English, Russian
Github Skills (68)
zero-configuration10
internationalization10
developer-tools10
nodejs10
create-react-app10
react10
javascript9
fastify9
hapi9
icu9
localization9
api9
git-stash9
globalization9
overhead9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nckcol/carousel-behavior
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
React component that takes care of carousel behavior without predefined UI
Contributions:20 commits, 18 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 months
zero-uireact-componentreacttakesslider
nckcol/advent-of-code-2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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