Nikolay Likhogrud
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNikolay Likhogrud is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 14 years of experience building and scaling mobile platforms at Yandex, currently heading technology for Yandex Kinopoisk. He has a proven track record of unifying large teams and codebases—most notably merging Yandex.Maps and Navigator into a shared Kotlin Multiplatform codebase exceeding 250k LOC and supporting 20M+ MAU. Nikolay specializes in rapid product launches under tight deadlines, having orchestrated the MENA Superapp release before Ramadan through strict release cycles, backend-driven UI, and robust client/backend services. He combines deep hands-on mobile engineering (iOS, Android, KMM) with strong process design, CI/automation and SDK/product stewardship, having driven public launches of NaviKit and internationalized map products. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and negotiation-savvy, able to turn “messy” multi-team projects into repeatable, high-quality delivery pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian
Github Skills (12)
objective-c10
swift10
macos10
ios10
cocoapods9
xcode9
carthage9
dependency-manager8
cocoa8
package-manager7
yandex5
executable1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
likhogrud/cocoapods-locale-dependent-tests
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
likhogrud/cocoapods-amimono
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 5 months
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