Nikolai Kapliev is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in London with 11 years of software engineering experience focused on improving reliability for large-scale cloud products at Google. He combines strong troubleshooting and SLO-driven operational practices with hands-on coding in Python, Go and JavaScript, informed by prior roles building high-load web services, BGP routing features, and deployment automation. Nikolai has led small teams and cut build times and infrastructure costs through practical optimizations, showing a propensity for graph and dependency-level improvements rather than just surface tooling. His background in photonics and formal IT retraining gives him a systems-oriented perspective that surfaces in both low-level routing work and high-level service reliability. Outside work he stays engaged with web technologies and programming competitions, reflecting a continual appetite for problem-solving and performance tuning.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Retraining Information Technology, Retraining Information Technology at Saint Petersburg Academic University
Bachelor's degree Photonics and Optoinformatics, Bachelor's degree Photonics and Optoinformatics at ITMO University
Technician Information Technology, Technician Information Technology at Krasnodar College of Electronic Instrumentation
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