Nikolay Gagarinov
Mentor at Hexlet
Perm, Perm, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Gagarinov is a software engineer and mentor with 11 years of hands-on experience building practical, maintainable systems and coaching other developers. Currently mentoring at Hexlet, he blends real-world production experience from Xsolla and ООО "Юникорн" with a talent for explaining complex concepts clearly. Based in Perm, Russia, he focuses on reliable engineering practices—an approach hinted at by his wry GitHub motto that the surest way to avoid bugs is not to write code. Trained in accounting, he brings an analytical, detail-oriented perspective to software design and code review. Nikolay is comfortable across the development lifecycle and prioritizes developer education and reproducible, low-surprise implementations.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Accounting, Accounting at Российский Государственный Торгово-Экономический Университет (РГТЭУ)
Github Skills (200)
stackoverflow10
php-library10
cpp10
computer-science10
nodejs10
php10
python10
questions-and-answers10
html-webpack-plugin10
fundamentals10
webpack-plugin10
categories10
javascript10
interactive-programming10
coding10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
fey/fey
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
hexlet-basics/exercises-bash
Jan 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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