Nikita Sokolnikov
Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Sokolnikov is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in compiler development, GPU back-end work, and driver-compiler integration, currently contributing at Apple in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a strong track record from LLVM-based GPU compiler work and OpenGL driver support at Samsung, combining low-level systems expertise with practical cross-team collaboration to resolve complex hardware-software challenges. Comfortable debugging assembly-level issues and mentoring others from his tutoring background, he brings both deep technical rigor and clear communication to multidisciplinary projects. Nikita’s blend of compiler internals knowledge and production GPU driver experience makes him particularly effective at optimizing performance-critical graphics and compute pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Russian
Github Skills (6)
react2
redux2
mongodb2
typescript1
javascript1
nodejs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nsokolnikov/plant-network
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Praxyk/Praxyk-data
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 11 days
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