Summary
Nikolay Ponomarev is a Technical Lead based in New York with eight years of experience building secure, high-performance systems across payments, financial trading, telecom and media. He is a pragmatic polyglot developer who favors clean, well-designed code and routinely works in Kotlin, Java, Groovy, C++ and JavaScript with Spring Boot and Vue.js. At Mastercard he became one of the top contributors to Secure Remote Commerce, leading development, deployment and test processes from change to production. His background in low-level protocols (FIX, SMPP, Protocol Buffers, Apache Qpid) and enterprise databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL) helps him bridge backend messaging, integration and transactional domains. Comfortable in CI/CD and cloud platforms (Jenkins, PCF, AWS), he combines hands-on implementation with technical leadership to deliver auditable, production-ready systems. An engineer by training with a mechanical-engineering degree, he brings a disciplined, systems-oriented perspective to software architecture and performance.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow State Technical University "MAMI" (Institute of Automobile Technology and Management)
English, Russian