Oleg Nykolyn
Technical Lead at Portside, Inc.
West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOleg Nykolyn is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building high-quality, performance-conscious backend systems and SaaS APIs, currently leading a distributed team at Portside where he designs core APIs with Django, aiohttp and type-driven tooling. He brings deep troubleshooting skills from VoIP and automotive ADAS work, combining hands-on Python/C++ development with test automation, property-based testing, and CI-driven code reviews. A passionate functional-programming and open-source advocate, he contributes to the widely used TypedDjango django-stubs project by improving type annotations and fixing tests to make Django safer to type-check. Known for rapidly learning new technologies, he also conducts technical interviews and mentors engineers, blending practical delivery with long-term code quality. Based in West Kelowna, BC, he holds a Master’s in Informatics and Computer Science and favors measurable, performance-oriented engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (7)
mypy10
pep10
typehinting10
type-checking10
python10
django10
testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TypedDjango/django-stubs
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
A community effort to bring type hints to Django.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 comment, 2 issues in 1 day
Contributions summary:Oleg primarily contributed to the type stubs for the Django framework. Their work involved adding missing imports, fixing annotation issues in core files like `shortcuts.pyi` and `query.pyi`, and correcting type annotations for parameters within the `EmailMessage` class. Additionally, the user addressed formatting inconsistencies and fixed/uncommented tests related to the Django stubs project.
django
K0Te/django-object-manager
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
Simple object management for Django tests
Contributions:33 commits, 9 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 3 months
django
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