Summary
Nikolay Vasiliev is a pragmatic software developer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines, primarily for web data mining and knowledge base construction. Based in Trentino–Alto Adige/Südtirol, he has deep hands-on experience with Hadoop, Spark, Nutch-based web crawl ingestion and reducing tech debt to improve long-term maintainability. He has led a small web data mining team as Product Owner, translating requirements into plans and ensuring delivery cadence, while earlier roles at Yandex honed his testing, CI and backend verification skills. Nikolay also prototypes side projects—such as a Russian Twitter trending-topic detector—demonstrating a curiosity for NLP and practical experimentation beyond his day job.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Russian, English, Italian