Nikolay S
Team Lead at Optimus Ltd
Smolensk, Smolensk Oblast, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay S is a pragmatic backend-focused software engineer and team lead with 11 years of engineering experience and a Ph.D. in mathematical methods for economics. He has led decomposition of a monolithic ERP into Magento-based e-commerce and a ~20-service Symfony API Platform ecosystem, owning architecture, auth/roles, caching, messaging and automated testing. As Team Lead he blends hands-on coding with people management—task allocation, performance analysis, hiring, interview design and onboarding—while also driving tooling like PHPStan extensions and centralized error/logging. His background includes building ML-backed academic systems and rapid MVPs (APIs, hybrid mobile apps and call-center workstations), showing an ability to move from research-grade models to production-ready integrations. Based in Smolensk, he favors pragmatic automation and measurable team-upskilling to deliver maintainable systems under real-world constraints.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematical and instrumental methods in Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematical and instrumental methods in Economics at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)
Github Skills (103)
instagram10
uploader10
cordova-plugin10
encoding10
resumable10
p2p10
tus10
ethereum10
blockchain10
modular9
golang9
geth9
phonegap9
abi9
cordova9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
elluminatte/awesome-image-grubber
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 7 months
jest
BudsiesApp/phpstan-magento
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:22 releases, 14 commits, 11 PRs in 11 days
phpmagento2phpstanmagento-1magento
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