Nikita Utkin
Full-stack Software Engineer at Shiawasedo Inc.
Kobe, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Utkin is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 9 years of experience and 5+ years focused on building high-performance web platforms and microservices using Go, TypeScript, Python, and React. He has a strong track record of designing scalable systems—shipping a web marketplace, a distributed Go+Python web-scraper, and microservices that cut release and incident times at previous employers. Comfortable in fast-paced startups, Nikita combines frontend and backend chops to optimize production reliability and performance (e.g., 40% faster site loads and 20% lower payment fees). He also contributes to open-source testing tooling, improving LuaUnit’s test suite, which reflects attention to quality and automation. Based in Kobe, Japan, he brings a practical blend of entrepreneurial freelance experience and enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G.I. Nosov (MSTU)
English, Russian
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
assertion10
lua10
test-framework10
unit-test10
testing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bluebird75/luaunit
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
LuaUnit is a popular unit-testing framework for Lua, with an interface typical of xUnit libraries (Python unittest, Junit, NUnit, ...). It supports several output formats (Text, TAP, JUnit, ...) to be used directly or work with Continuous Integration platforms (Jenkins, Maven, ...).
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributed to the testing framework LuaUnit. Their commits focused on adding, modifying, and improving unit tests. Specifically, they added a unit test for error handling with tables, and improved the existing tests to include checking error message contents. Additionally, they made changes to the test suite.
pythonunitnunitcontinuous-integrationjunit
Xenikay/SimpleLootSystem
Jul 2018 - Jun 2023
Simple Gmod loot system
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 4 years 11 months
lootgmod
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