Nikolai Grigoriev
Principal Software Architect at Microsoft
Brossard, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolNikolai Grigoriev is a Principal Software Architect with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and modernizing large-scale, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams across Microsoft, Nuance, and several startups. He specializes in migrating legacy platforms to Kubernetes and public clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP), identity and authorization, and resilient distributed data architectures including NoSQL and graph databases. Known for bridging product, engineering and operations, he has driven platform transformations, evangelized CI/CD and security best practices, and delivered mission-critical services like Voice Biometrics SaaS. Comfortable deep in the stack—from Linux and network protocols to Java and web technologies—he also brings practical DevOps fluency and capacity-planning expertise from heavy Hadoop/Cassandra/HBase work. Based in Brossard, Quebec, he combines research-driven problem solving (patents and early semantic-web work) with pragmatic leadership that re-energizes teams and reduces operational cost.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree Computer Science, Master degree Computer Science at St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (http://suai.ru)
English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (200)
fastcgi10
hbase10
firmware10
proxy10
k8s10
hydra10
file-sharing10
api10
ory10
atmel10
cassandra10
openid-connect10
oauth2-client10
trust10
esp826610
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ngrigoriev/nextcloud-beefedup
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Nextcloud container image with some useful add-ons
Contributions:19 releases, 13 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 8 months
graph-lab/janusgraph-schema-manager
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
janusgraphmanagement-toolschema-managementforward
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