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
Stackoverflow
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173reached
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Github Skills (107)
benchmark10
evolutionary10
python10
feature-extraction10
generative10
hyperparameter-optimization10
automation10
automl10
graphic10
object-recognition10
benchmarking10
openml10
automated-machine-learning10
parameter-tuning10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ITMO-NSS-team/FEDOT.Docs
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
Documentation for FEDOT
Contributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 114 pushes in 1 year 2 months
fedot
ITMO-NSS-team/FEDOT-benchmarks
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Comparison tool for the state-of-the-art AutoML frameworks
Contributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 7 months
artcomparisonstate-of-the-artmachine-learningcomparison-tool
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