Nikolay Popov
Staff Software Engineer at Hammerspace
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Popov is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native systems, test frameworks, and reliable SDLC practices from Mountain View, CA. He has progressed from hands-on QA engineering to senior technical roles at Nexenta, Portworx, and now Hammerspace, blending deep SQA expertise with production-grade engineering in Go, Docker, and Kubernetes across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift. Known for designing automation frameworks from scratch and rigorous QA documentation, he bridges testing discipline with scalable platform development. Comfortable both leading initiatives and executing detailed technical work, he excels at complex problem solving and clear cross-cultural communication in English and Russian. His background in MEAN-stack UI work informs a pragmatic full-stack sensibility that helps surface user-impacting bugs earlier. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful decisions that balance speed, reliability, and maintainability in distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at De Anza College
Russian, English
Github Skills (8)
cordova-android8
decimal7
cordova-ios-plugin7
cordova-ios7
cordova-plugin6
keyboard5
cordova4
ios3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lifebits/mafon.pw
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
lifebits/stomatology
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:182 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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