Nikita Popov is a Senior .NET backend engineer based in Belgrade with over 8 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput services for logistics, telecom, and public sector clients. He specializes in backend architecture, event-driven systems and observability—recently redesigning Kafka event flows to eliminate out-of-order delivery and stabilise processing for international logistics integrations. Nikita has led zero-downtime migrations of high-load tariffication flows, introduced docs-as-code and C4-like service descriptions to accelerate onboarding, and drove measurable reliability improvements via monitoring and load testing. He pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring and hiring—tutoring Route256 candidates and onboarding top talent—and has a background in raising automated test coverage and shifting teams toward maintainable, production-ready systems. An MSc in Computer Software Engineering, he brings a pragmatic focus on operational excellence and developer productivity across the full backend stack.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Kuban State Technological University
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Nikita Popov - Senior .NET Software Engineer at OZON.ru