Nikolai Revin
Lead DevSecOps Engineer at ORYXLABS
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolNikolai Revin is a Lead DevSecOps Engineer with 11 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native platforms across fintech and retail technology. Based in Abu Dhabi, he has progressed through senior SRE and platform engineering roles at companies including Callsign, Amaiz and Ocado Technology, and now leads DevSecOps at ORYXLABS. He combines hands-on systems engineering with security-first practices, focusing on reliability, automation and robust error handling. An active open-source contributor, he improved error propagation and resilience in the widely used Go templates library sprig, replacing panics with proper error returns. Nikolai pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a master’s-level technical background, often surfacing subtle runtime issues before they reach production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Southwest State University (former Kursk State Technical University)
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
196reputation
6kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (20)
js-template10
go10
error-handling10
cpp-templates10
c-templates10
testing9
html-template9
python-templates9
apptemplates9
code-templates9
refactoring8
client-go6
amazon-s36
dockerfile6
docker6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Masterminds/sprig
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Useful template functions for Go templates.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikolai primarily contributed to the `sprig` repository by refactoring code to handle errors properly, replacing panics with error returns. They also made changes to several files including crypto, list, numeric, and date functionalities, enhancing the overall robustness of the project. Furthermore, the user replaced numeric cast functions with the `spf13/cast` library and introduced `must*` functions where errors were previously omitted, improving error handling.
go-templatesgotemplatetemplates
nrvnrvn/dotfiles
Jul 2014 - Nov 2022
Contributions:123 commits, 90 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 6 months
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