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 (43)
keyboard-layout10
ergonomics9
stl9
vim9
3d-printing9
neovim9
mx8
keyboard8
text-editor7
windows7
rust7
mysql6
macos6
php6
sql6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
braindefender/universal-layout
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 reviews, 18 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
macoswindows
braindefender/expose-nuxt-old
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
Expose module for expose.gpntbsib.ru
Contributions:1 PR, 119 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
vuenuxtexpose
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