Nikita Tolkachev
Co-Founder, CTO at Toki
Batumi, Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Georgia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Tolkachev is a software leader and co-founder serving as CTO of Toki, an all-in-one retention platform rated 5.0 on the Shopify App Store that serves seven- and eight-figure brands with loyalty, referrals, memberships, and community features. With 11 years of experience leading backend teams and shipping production systems, he combines hands-on development with product-driven architecture and customer-focused support. He has held progressive technical leadership roles at BrainRocket, Wisebits Group, and dev.family, guiding teams through delivery and scaling challenges. An active contributor to the Laravel framework, Nikita has improved core developer ergonomics by adding Eloquent helpers and hardening request/user handling—evidence of his attention to framework-level robustness. Based in Batumi, Georgia, he pairs a technical background in computer security with a master’s in innovation management, blending security-aware engineering and strategic product thinking. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who favors elegant backend solutions that directly improve merchant retention and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Innovation management, Master's degree, Innovation management at Belarusian State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (9)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
laravel10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
url-routing9
testing5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Mar 2016 - Dec 2020
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 14 PRs, 56 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nikita contributed to the Laravel framework by addressing several issues and implementing new features. They fixed middleware assignments, added a `when` method to the Eloquent Builder, and introduced a `getValidationData` method to FormRequest. Furthermore, the user made the Optional@__call macroable, and cleared a cached user in RequestGuard upon a request change. This suggests a focus on improving core framework functionality and developer experience.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
n7olkachev/laravel-computed-properties
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Make your accessors smarter
Contributions:5 releases, 19 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 1 month
home-assistantsmarteraccessors
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