Nikolai Kovalenko
Principal Software Engineer at Humanitec
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolNikolai Kovalenko is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building internal developer platforms and cloud-native orchestration systems from Berlin. He designs and implements core orchestration services and Kubernetes integrations for GKE/EKS/AKS, combining deep Go expertise with Terraform, Helm and secret management (Vault, cloud secret stores). Previously he led backend teams delivering high-throughput Python/Django services and geolocation systems at Rambler&Co, and has a long history of shipping web platforms and migrations across diverse stacks. Nikolai blends systems-level engineering with practical product delivery—eg. authoring a Kubernetes Operator and federated identity integrations for a SaaS Platform Orchestrator—while grounding his approach in applied mathematics and machine learning coursework. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, production-focused solutions that bridge infra, security and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning and Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Data Analysis at CourseraMaster's degree Computational and Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Computational and Applied Mathematics at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
English, Russian, German
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Github Skills (57)
component-based10
docker-compose10
compose10
relationship9
reference-implementation9
gateway9
1c9
backend9
docker8
python8
platform-agnostic8
cloud-infrastructure7
architectures7
flask-api7
wizard7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
humanitec-hackteam5/walhall-debug-lite
Dec 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Humanitec/blueprint_flask_service
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Flask framework blueprint for microservices
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
pythonblueprintflask-apiflaskflask-framework
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