Nikolas Grinkevich
Backend Engineer at Thesis*
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarNikolas Grinkevich is a backend engineer based in London with 11 years building scalable web and blockchain systems, currently working across backend roles at Thesis and Fold. He combines systems architecture, team leadership and project management with hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Docker/Kubernetes and test-driven CI workflows. Nikolas has deep web3 experience—Solidity, Ethereum, web3.js and libp2p—and has contributed front-end improvements to the community-owned Taho web3 wallet extension, showing a full-stack comfort that spans React/TypeScript to smart contracts. His background includes engineering management at Keep Network and contract work for Google building a custom CMS integrated with Google Cloud, reflecting both product-focused delivery and cloud-native ops. Known for pragmatic technical decisions and mentoring distributed teams, he blends fintech and blockchain domain knowledge with a history of shipping reliable, well-tested systems. An often-overlooked strength is his long track record of switching between front-end UX fixes and deep backend architecture, enabling smoother end-to-end product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
web3js10
react10
ethereum9
wallet9
css8
html7
cryptocurrency7
daap6
bitcoin4
bitcoins4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tahowallet/extension
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Taho, the community owned and operated Web3 wallet.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 3 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Nikolas primarily contributed to the front-end of the Taho wallet extension, focusing on UI components and user interface improvements. Their work included closing the network switcher after network selection, fixing hover styles on network switcher elements, and refactoring the TopMenu component. They also addressed bugs, merged in changes, and implemented improvements related to the Send and Receive pages, adding features like address validation and UI enhancements.
tallydappethereumblockchainweb3
ngrinkevich/django-audioadmin
Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
A reusable Django app for uploading/previewing audio files with a simple id3 tag reader.
Contributions:18 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
pythondjangoaudiotag-readeraudio-files
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