Nikita Skalkin
Senior Software Engineer at Artsy
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Skalkin is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building reliable, highly available distributed systems and mentoring engineering teams. He specializes in Ruby/Ruby on Rails and AWS, with a track record leading backend and web teams at startups and agencies and shipping production services at scale. At Artsy he contributes to user-facing features across mobile and web (notably enhancements to the well-known Artsy apps and site), while prior roles included technical leadership and blockchain integrations for financial platforms. Known for pragmatic architecture choices, clean maintainable code, and improving developer workflows (CI/CD and infra automation), he also brings hands-on front-end work that improves UX and product polish.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, M.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Orel State Technical University
Russian, English, German
Github Skills (27)
objective-c10
javascript10
react-native10
ui-components10
responsive-design10
typescript10
typescript-types10
swift10
typescripts10
react10
expressjs9
ios9
wpgraphql9
android-app9
android9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
artsy/eigen
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
The Art World in Your Pocket or Your Trendy Tech Company's Tote, Artsy's mobile app.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:319 reviews, 10 commits, 154 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nikita's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Artsy mobile app. Their work involved removing feature flags, modifying UI components and tests, adding new preferences for push notifications, and showing curated collections on the search screen. The commits also included refactoring code and adding counts to activity panel items, indicating a focus on improving user experience and application functionality. The user also worked on adding a blue dot on the home icon when there are unread notifications.
objective-cpocketartapp-storereact-native
artsy/force
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
The Artsy.net website
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:339 reviews, 29 commits, 189 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the front-end of the Artsy.net website, as evidenced by the commits focusing on UI components, and user interface updates within the `force` repository, which is described as the Artsy.net website. These changes included adding features to the Consign submission flow by implementing download app buttons, updating image previews, and updating the style of artwork components. The user also addressed reported bugs and improved the general user experience, indicating a focus on front-end development tasks.
reactjavascriptartsyexpress-jsgraphql
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