Nikita Safonov
Technical Writer at The Apache Software Foundation
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolNikita Safonov is a senior technical writer with five years of experience crafting developer- and product-facing documentation for fintech and distributed database platforms. He combines deep docs-as-code practice (Markdown, AsciiDoc, Git) with hands-on familiarity with Java, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, IMDBs and TSDBs, enabling him to translate complex system concepts into clear guides, API references, and tutorials. A long-time contributor and committer to Apache Ignite, he brings open-source discipline and community feedback loops to product documentation. Nikita has built documentation processes from scratch at multiple companies, improved SEO and feedback pipelines, and pairs his writing with UX collaboration and data-driven decisions from analytics. Fluent in English and experienced working with US, EU, and UK teams, he also offers business-analysis skills in fintech product backlog refinement and stakeholder facilitation.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Language Interpretation and Translation, Bachelor's degree, Language Interpretation and Translation at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Russian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
web-vitals10
in-memory-database10
big-data10
hadoop10
apache10
java10
apache-ignite10
iot10
osgi10
ignite10
sql10
network-server10
accumulo10
database10
axiom9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Nikita-tech-writer/ignite-3
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Apache Ignite 3
Contributions:14 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
apache-igniteapachebig-dataignitedatabase
Nikita-tech-writer/ignite
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Apache Ignite
Contributions:24 pushes, 15 branches in 2 months
apache-igniteapachebig-dataignitedatabase
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