Nikolay Nikitin
Software Engineering Team Lead at Magnit
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Top SchoolNikolay Nikitin is a software engineering team lead with 12 years of experience building and modernizing backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Magnit in Saint Petersburg. He combines hands-on backend development with architectural design and team mentorship, having led microservice decompositions and finance-platform refactors at Avito, Qlean.ru and Noveo. His background blends industry practice with research credentials — he holds a PhD and has headed an AutoML lab at ITMO University — which informs a pragmatic, data-driven approach to reducing accidental complexity. Skilled across PHP/LAMP stacks, orchestration, CI/CD, monitoring and external integrations, he focuses on reliable, maintainable systems and developer productivity. Colleagues rely on him for clear decomposition of hard problems and for translating research-informed techniques into production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Petrozavodsk State University (PetrSU)
English
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Github Skills (113)
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telegram10
generative10
hyperparameter-optimization10
automation10
deep-learning10
automl10
bayesian-network10
linux10
theory10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aimclub/FEDOT.Web
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Graphic tool for the automated evolutionary design of composite models
Contributions:136 reviews, 35 commits, 82 PRs in 1 year 11 months
fedotmachine-learningguiinteractive-visualizationsautoml
ITMO-NSS-team/oil-field-modelling
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
The toolbox for the oil fields modelling and analysis (oil forecasting, seismic slices classification, etc)
Contributions:38 commits, 4 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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