Nikita Shirokov
Software Engineer at Dropbox
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNikita Shirokov is a software engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale networking and systems infrastructure, currently at Dropbox. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Linux, routing, MPLS, BGP and high-performance load balancing, having authored Facebook’s next-generation L4 load balancer, katran. His background spans network design and operationalizing mission-critical services at Yandex and enterprise deployments on Juniper/Cisco hardware, and he holds a JNCIE-SP certification. Comfortable coding in Python, Go, C and C++, he bridges low-level networking protocols with production software engineering to deliver resilient, high-throughput systems. Based in Redmond, he pairs operator instincts with software craftsmanship and an uncommon blend of UI/UX/web interests visible on his GitHub.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
1806specialist, computer science, specialist, computer science at National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
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Github Skills (55)
ergonomics10
wireless10
linux10
keyboard10
3d-printing10
keyboard-layout10
stl10
usb-hid9
rp20409
usb9
firmware9
vim9
mx9
neovim9
rust8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
braindefender/ergohaven-figma
Nov 2023 - May 2026
Figma design documents for ErgoHaven keyboards
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
figma
braindefender/KLP-Lame-Keycaps
Aug 2023 - Dec 2025
Sculpted and curved keycaps for Kailh Choc and MX switches
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
3d-printingchockeycapsmxergonomic-keyboard
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