Nikolay Volik
Staff Software Engineer at Unity
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Volik is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building high-performance backend and data engineering systems, currently focused on modernizing data platforms at Unity. He designed and operated a resource-efficient ingestion pipeline at GBIF that processes over 3 billion documents daily and powered 15 web portals by innovatively using Elasticsearch as NoSQL storage. Proficient in Java with hands-on Python, Scala, and Bash experience, he has built 15+ microservices for event-driven architectures and automated complex CI/CD backfill and smoke-test workflows. Nikolay combines hands-on coding with mentoring and hiring expertise from prior senior roles, and has a history of porting low-level systems (Android, SIP, crypto) that hints at deep systems-level competence beyond typical backend work. Based in Copenhagen, he favors open-source practices—much of his GBIF work is Apache 2.0–licensed—bringing pragmatic, production-first engineering to large-scale data problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Kazakh AgroTechnical University named after S.Seifullin
Russian, English, Danish
Github Skills (54)
pipeline10
data-processing10
biodiversity-informatics9
api9
crawler9
parser8
cli8
bank8
mvt8
crawling8
tiles8
hbase7
dates7
vector6
vector-tiles6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gbif/gridded-datasets
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
muttcg/muttcg
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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