Nikita Puzankov
Senior Rust Engineer at Yat Labs
Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Puzankov is a Senior Rust Engineer with a decade of professional experience building robust backend systems and decentralized ledger components. Currently at Yat Labs, he blends deep Rust expertise with a history of leadership roles—from founding a local IT community to heading training and engineering units at EPAM—demonstrating both technical depth and people-first leadership. His open-source contributions to Hyperledger Iroha show hands-on design of core blockchain primitives (Block, Transaction, Asset) and serialization/VM traits, underscoring a strong foundation in low-level data models and distributed systems. Comfortable moving between enterprise R&D and startup environments, he frequently ships production-ready code and fosters developer ecosystems. Collected academic excellence (master’s with top marks) and his willingness to act decisively suggest a pragmatic engineer who prefers building and iterating over waiting.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Среднее (полное) общее образование, Mathematics and Computer Science, Среднее (полное) общее образование, Mathematics and Computer Science at МОУ СОШ №81Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 4.7, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, 4.7 at Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Английский
Github Skills (8)
data-structures10
data-serialization10
rust10
data-structure10
blockchain10
serialization10
distributed-ledger-technology9
distributed-ledger9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-iroha/iroha
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Iroha - A simple, enterprise-grade decentralized ledger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:103 reviews, 103 commits, 195 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:The user, Nikita Puzankov, made initial contributions to the Kura API, focusing on the creation of core structures and data models, like `Block`, `Transaction`, and `Asset`. Their work included the implementation of commands and serialization/deserialization logic using `bincode`. They also established traits for instruction execution within a `WorldStateView`, indicating development of foundational backend logic.
dltdecentralizeddistributed-ledgerblockchain-networkhyperledger
humb1t/java_inda_cloud
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
Project to show transition from Monolith application to clustered microservice app
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
monolith-applicationtransitiondockermonolithmicroservices
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