Nikolay Volodin
Senior Software Engineer at Qlik
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Volodin is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and modernizing web back-ends, primarily in PHP and Drupal, now focused on Symfony-driven migrations at Qlik. He’s skilled at designing scalable, maintainable architectures, improving search and data handling (notably contributing backend fixes and refactors to the DKAN open data portal) and routinely ports complex editor plugins to CKEditor 5. A pragmatic troubleshooter and team player, he has led small projects, improved CI workflows, and resolved high-priority PII and performance issues under tight timelines. Based in Montreal, he combines deep Drupal expertise with Docker, GitLab CI and MySQL proficiency, and since 2023 has shared his practical insights as a conference speaker.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Junior Specialist, Computer Software Engineering, Diploma of Junior Specialist, Computer Software Engineering at Rostov-on-Don State College of Communications and Computer ScienceDiploma of Specialist, Computer Software Engineering, Diploma of Specialist, Computer Software Engineering at Don State Technical University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (7)
drupal10
php10
back-end-development10
datastore9
data-storage9
open-data9
unit-testing7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GetDKAN/dkan
Apr 2021 - Sep 2021
DKAN Open Data Portal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 15 commits, 22 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily contributed to the back-end of the DKAN Open Data Portal, focusing on improving search and facet functionalities. Their work involved modifying PHP code within the `metastore` and `datastore` modules, specifically addressing issues related to handling complex, multi-value strings and refining data retrieval. The commits also include refactoring and test improvements, which is further evidence of backend focus.
phpdatastoredkandata-portalportal
klimp-drupal/pantheon-ocd8-composer
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 86 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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