Nikita Tkachenko
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolNikita Tkachenko is a Senior Software Engineer based in Madrid with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and optimizing Java/JVM-based distributed systems and databases. He has driven high-scale projects across finance, telecom and observability—building a payments engine at Deutsche Bank, scaling VK Calls to millions of daily users, and now contributing to Datadog’s CI Visibility and Java tracer. Nikita combines deep performance tuning and architecture skills with practical tooling deliverables (diagnostic tools, traceability mechanisms and automated regression suites) that materially improved reliability and velocity. He has led teams, hired extensively across regions, and repeatedly removed scalability bottlenecks that unlocked business outcomes. Notably, his work often bridges production support and proactive engineering, turning recurring incidents into long-term system improvements.
3 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computational Systems and Networks, Master's Degree, Computational Systems and Networks at Saint-Petersburg State University Information Technologies, Mechanic and Optics (University ITMO)
English, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (55)
kotlin10
debugging10
hugo10
javascript10
continuous-integration10
bytebuddy10
distributed-tracing10
opentracing10
java10
apm10
security10
android10
profiling10
jenkins-plugin10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/test-visibility-github-action
Jun 2024 - Jan 2026
GitHub Action that installs Datadog Test Visibility
Contributions:26 releases, 16 reviews, 23 PRs in 1 year 6 months
datadog
DataDog/test-optimization-circleci-orb
Sep 2024 - Jul 2025
CircleCI orb that installs and configures Datadog Test Optimization
Contributions:9 releases, 4 reviews, 4 PRs in 10 months
circleci-orbdatadog
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