Nikolay Belokolodov
Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolNikolay Belokolodov is a Senior Backend Engineer with over 11 years of professional experience building scalable web applications and services, currently contributing to GitLab. He combines deep Ruby and JavaScript expertise with practical Go and Python usage, and has repeatedly taken prototypes to production across startups and enterprise projects. Notably, he helped architect a dating app backend designed for over a million daily users and has driven migrations toward microservices for maintainability and scaling. Comfortable across Rails, Node, React, and Kubernetes, he also applies ML tools like TensorFlow and Keras to real business problems. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he documents technical learnings on a personal blog and maintains an active GitHub presence, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability, observability, and DevOps best practices.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Master's Degree at Moscow Institute of Technology (MTI)
Russian, English
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Github Skills (70)
authentication10
linter10
analyzer10
mozilla10
static-analysis9
formatter9
browser9
formatters9
code-analyzer9
firefox9
swift9
rust9
programming-language9
interface-builder9
rubocop9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
travelerspb/SPAAngularWebAPI
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years
travelerspb/nvim_config
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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