Nikolai Kornushkov
Senior Software Engineer at Flink
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolai Kornushkov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade building high-performance, distributed backend systems primarily in Go. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy stacks and scaling event-driven services across cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), with hands-on experience in Pub/Sub, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis and Kubernetes. Nikolai has improved real-time delivery operations and ETA accuracy for consumer-facing products, driven observability and incident response improvements, and reduced latency through targeted refactors. He frequently mentors teams and led several Golang migrations that measurably boosted performance and reliability. Notably, his work spans both product-facing APIs and deep operational tooling, combining pragmatic engineering with a focus on security and scalability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Togliatti Goverment University
Russian, English, German
Github Skills (48)
docker-container10
braintree10
python-bindings10
php-fpm9
libgit29
docker-compose9
wordpress9
docker9
moodle9
php9
nginx8
drupal8
php-library8
python8
mongodb8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
imbpp123/Cm_Cache_Backend_Redis
Sep 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 4 months
zendrediscache-backendphpbackend
CfferaApp/CfferaApp
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
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Contributions:22 PRs, 76 pushes, 23 branches in 3 months
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