Nikita Smirnov
Python Developer at Xelix
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNikita Smirnov is a Python backend engineer based in London with roughly a decade of hands-on experience building production-grade services for robotics, IoT, and research environments. He has a track record of improving reliability and deployment velocity—refactoring serial communication libraries to cut device integration time from weeks to days and boosting serial network bitrate and tolerance by ~20%. Recent work includes FastAPI-based OTA update services, Postgres/MinIO backends, and RabbitMQ integrations that unify robotic platforms with cloud analytics. Comfortable across firmware-to-cloud stacks, he combines an electrical engineering masters background with pragmatic software delivery, often simplifying test infrastructure to reduce development cost without sacrificing quality. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who brings both low-level hardware insight and scalable backend design to complex automation projects.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Ural State Technical UniversityGithub contributions (3)
Nifhelm/1c-front-end
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Nifhelm/Java-1c
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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