Nikola Petkov
Software Engineer at NovaLite
Serbia
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Top SchoolNikola Petkov is a hands-on Software Engineer and CTO with 10+ years of experience building large-scale, event-driven systems and content platforms from Serbia. He specializes in functional programming with Scala and has delivered resilient microservices and streaming architectures processing millions of XML documents using technologies like Play, Akka/Pekko, Cats, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and AWS. Nikola’s career spans full-stack and cross-domain projects — from legal and tax content platforms to document archiving, Android security apps, and medical data exchanges — demonstrating an ability to translate complex domain requirements into production-ready systems. He combines deep engineering practice with architecture and team leadership, having worked as developer, architect and mentor across startups, academia and outsourcing engagements. Notably, he maintains long-term contributions to tools originating from his university work (e.g., Mosquito PDM) and prefers pragmatic, testable designs that scale in cloud-native environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Univerzitet u Novom Sadu
Serbian
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Github Skills (15)
garmin10
reactivemongo8
mongodb7
xcode6
coredata6
self-signed6
playframework6
jailbreak6
iphone6
scala6
saxon2
xml1
testing-library1
elasticsearch1
testing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mgifos/quick-plan
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Defines and schedules Garmin workouts
Contributions:10 releases, 65 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 1 month
calendarschedulesgarmingarmin-connectworkouts
sdu-cwc-extra/diffy
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:32 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
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