Nikita Pozdniakov
New Products Development Director at Irkutsk Oil Company LLC
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Pozdniakov is a New Products Development Director with two decades of senior commercial and business development experience in the oil and gas sector, having led major marketing, export and M&A initiatives at Rosneft and Gazprom. He has negotiated and closed long‑term pipeline gas and LNG deals exceeding multiple bcma and mtpa, contributed to large infrastructure projects (RFE and Voskhod LNG, Sakhalin‑1, Zohr) and helped secure exploration assets with reserves >400 bcm. Skilled at building Asia‑focused partnerships after 2022 sanctions, he combines strategic dealmaking with hands‑on commercial oversight of subsidiaries and complex international transactions. Now leading new product development at Irkutsk Oil Company, he blends market strategy, product commercialization and regulatory engagement—including contributing to laws enabling Rosneft’s LNG exports. Less obvious: he complements his commercial career with technical curiosity, contributing backend fixes and robustness improvements to the popular open‑source Blockscout Ethereum explorer. His background is supported by an MBA from the Higher School of Economics and long experience navigating state, industry and cross‑border commercial environments.
8 years of coding experience
MBA, MBA at Высшая Школа Экономики / Higher School of EconomicsM.A., M.A. at Saint Petersburg State University
Русский, Английский, Китайский, Французский
Github Skills (8)
api10
backend10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ethereum10
elixir10
blockchain10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
blockscout/blockscout
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Blockchain explorer for Ethereum based network and a tool for inspecting and analyzing EVM based blockchains.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 853 reviews, 792 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nikita's commits primarily focus on enhancing the functionality and improving the error handling within the Blockscout blockchain explorer project. The contributions include modifications to the internal transaction handling, adding features for displaying specific data in the user interface, and improving the robustness of the API by adding support for various parameters and addressing invalid states. The user also implemented fixes and optimizations across different areas of the codebase to improve functionality and stability.
blockchainethereumevmelixirexplorer
blockscout/blockscout-api-v2-swagger
Feb 2023 - Sep 2025
Docs for BlockScout API v2
Contributions:6 reviews, 20 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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