Nikita Savchenko
Founder at Arkis
Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Savchenko is a founder and product-led engineer with 12+ years building and scaling web and crypto products from zero to production. He designed and shipped high-impact systems at Google (GCP Carbon Footprint, Cloud Run components), led crypto product engineering at Revolut, and grew DataUnlocker into a Cloudflare Workers–powered service proxying 50M+ requests/day for 1,000+ customers. Equally at home in product discovery and low-level engineering, he has built Ethereum-native systems since 2017 and now rethinks client-side protection with AfterPack, a Rust-based JS obfuscator for the LLM era. His open-source contributions include adding language support to the widely used highlight.js project, reflecting a hands-on focus on developer tooling as well as production services. Based in Krakow, he blends PhD-level research training with startup grit to turn ambiguous problems into scalable, user-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Institute for Information Recording of the National Academy of Sciences of UkraineMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at APEPS department of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Russian, English, Ukrainian, German
Stackoverflow
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25answers
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
syntax-highlighting10
grammars9
highlighting9
syntax-highlighter9
mochajs6
intersystems-cache6
nodejs6
typescript6
google-chrome6
ts-node6
pointer-events6
yaml4
julia4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
highlightjs/highlight.js
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to adding and enhancing support for the Caché Object Script (COS) language within the highlight.js library. Their work included creating a new language definition file for COS, incorporating keywords, and defining string and number syntax highlighting. They also integrated updates, including changes to the Julia and YAML language definitions. The user's changes added new language support and expanded the breadth of the syntax highlighting capabilities of the library.
dependencieshighlightzerosyntax-highlighterjavascript-syntax
DeCash-Official/docs.decash.com
Dec 2021 - Aug 2022
DeCash public docs.
Contributions:46 reviews, 12 PRs, 40 pushes in 7 months
public-docs
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