Nikolay Rys
Senior Software Engineer at Smartly
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Rys is a Senior Software Engineer based in Helsinki with 11 years in programming and seven focused on Ruby on Rails full‑stack development. He blends hands-on engineering with team leadership experience, having led Ruby & JS teams and served as a data engineer, team lead, and senior developer across European startups and scaleups. Holding a machine learning bachelor's and an associate degree in mathematics, he brings a data‑minded approach to product engineering and backend architecture. An active open‑source contributor, his portfolio spans code, articles and bug reports, reflecting continuous community engagement beyond day‑to‑day product work. Colleagues know him for moving quickly between code, data and team coordination—turning research‑level ML intuition into pragmatic, production-ready web solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Mathematics, Associate's degree Mathematics at Higher School of EconomicsBachelor's degree Machine Learning, Bachelor's degree Machine Learning at Goldsmiths, University of London
English, Russian, Italian, Swedish
Stackoverflow
137reputation
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2answers
8questions
Github Skills (63)
pry10
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capistrano10
mvc10
rails10
pinterest10
lita10
ruby10
api10
tumblr10
html10
webserver10
rack10
social-media10
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sashotoster/portfolio
Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
A website for developer's portfolio
Contributions:156 commits, 1 PR, 95 pushes in 3 years 4 months
javascriptnextjsreacttypescript
NikolayRys/stopgap_13632
Jul 2017 - May 2020
Workaround for "IOError: stream closed"
Contributions:75 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 10 months
ioerror
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