Nikolai Kliuev
Principal Software Engineer at Copper.co
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolai Kliuev is a Principal Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building backend and full-stack systems, currently focused on Scala and distributed backend architectures. He has progressed from front-end ownership and performance optimization to leading teams and shaping architecture at companies like Netcracker, Waves Enterprise, and Copper.co. Nikolai blends deep practical knowledge of Scala, Java, Akka, Kafka and PostgreSQL with hands-on TypeScript/React front-end experience, having built blockchain node components and explorers as well as large single-page applications. He routinely balances engineering leadership—mentoring teams, making stack choices and doing code reviews—with hands-on delivery of high-performance systems. Ambitious about functional programming, he’s completing the FP in Scala specialization and aims to contribute to major open-source projects, signaling a move from pragmatic engineering to more formal, functional design. A civil engineering graduate by training, he brings a systems-minded, detail-oriented approach honed across both frontend performance tuning and backend distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree Civil Engineering at Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Russian, English
Github Skills (52)
endpoints9
openapi8
http-server8
http4s8
akka-http8
scala8
akka8
functional-programming8
data-history7
http7
zio7
declarative7
http-client7
documentation6
swagger6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vostokplatform/blockchain-postgres-sync
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
A set of scripts to download and update Waves blockchain history data into a PostgreSQL database.
Contributions:1 release, 17 PRs, 120 pushes in 10 months
postgresql-databaseblockchain-platformblockchainwavesblockchain-network
vostokplatform/vostok-data-service
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 release, 22 PRs, 200 pushes in 10 months
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