Nikolay Titov
Software Developer at SAS
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Titov is a software developer with nine years of engineering experience and a strong academic background (MS and BS in Computer Science, 4.0 GPA from NCSU). He has deep expertise in SDN and fiber-optic access technologies, having designed end-to-end VONU provisioning and management solutions at Nokia that integrate NETCONF/YANG, Kafka messaging, and Altiplano controllers. Currently at SAS, he builds client-facing visual analytics and forecasting features that translate statistical and ML models into interactive graphs and tables. He is fluent in Java and Python and contributes to notable open-source projects like VOLTHA (xPON support) and Expertiza, demonstrating full-stack and back-end proficiency across telecom and education domains. Beyond product work, he’s comfortable designing protocol-level sequences, adapter-based integrations, and policy-driven virtual router load balancing—skills that bridge low-level network functions and higher-level management UIs. Based in Raleigh, he combines rigorous academic training with practical, production-grade engineering across distributed systems and analytics.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at North Carolina State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (21)
ruby-rails10
network-configuration10
python10
back-end-development10
rails10
ruby10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
ruby-on-rails10
cli10
peer-to-peer9
peer9
code-review9
front-end-development9
grpc9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
opencord/voltha
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily contributed to the xPON CLI tool within the VOLTHA project. Their work involved adding support for the BBF WT-385 xPON model, implementing configuration for channel groups, partitions, pairs, and terminations. They also focused on fixing issues in the xPON CLI, including missing validation for device IDs and improving the display of various interfaces. Furthermore, they introduced the use of interface_stack for managing child-parent relationships within the xPON interfaces.
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expertiza/expertiza
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 18 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily worked on enhancing the "Expertiza" web application, focusing on the assignment editing functionalities. They implemented new UI elements, specifically checkboxes, and created associated files to support features related to topic and rubric variations. Additionally, they modified the controller and helper files to accommodate the new UI elements and ensure data persistence. Their work involved a blend of front-end modifications (views) and back-end logic (controllers and helpers), suggesting a full-stack development role.
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