Nikita Vasilev is a product and transformation leader and founder with a decade of experience building digital platforms and shipping data-driven products across telecom and adTech. He combines hands-on backend and database engineering—evidenced by contributions to the open-source YDB distributed SQL database—with strategic product roles at Yandex, МТС and Beeline. Comfortable moving between startup and enterprise contexts, he has led product teams, owned roadmaps, and launched monetization and adTech initiatives. Trained in applied informatics from MEPhI, he brings a rare mix of technical depth in storage and query execution and practical product leadership that accelerates platform-level transformation.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Национальный Исследовательский Ядерный Университет "МИФИ"
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:177 reviews, 370 PRs, 160 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily worked on back-end database features, evident from their contributions to the query language and database integration. The commits focus on implementing and testing various database operations like upserts, deletes, and complex queries, also improvements and fixes related to the storage layer. Their work involved interacting with features involving column-oriented storage and SQL query execution.
Contributions:24 PRs, 383 pushes, 37 branches in 3 years 9 months
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