Pavel Nikonov
Backend Engineer at Evolution
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Nikonov is a backend engineer with 11 years of experience building production-ready services across startups and scale environments in Germany. He has strong hands-on expertise in Scala (functional Typelevel stack, ZIO), Go, gRPC, Kafka and Postgres, and a track record of designing and optimizing high-load systems and core libraries. Pavel prefers roles with technology freedom and flat, collaborative teams—he’s enjoyed participating in architecture design, code review, mentoring and hiring. Notably, he has shepherded real-time analytics pipelines and contributed to internal training (Scala School) and tooling, blending deep technical work with developer enablement. Currently at Evolution, he brings startup-style inventiveness coupled with proven operational discipline.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
English, German, Russian
Github Skills (15)
android-project7
html-renderer7
markdown6
parser6
golang5
go5
datastax4
android-development4
non-blocking4
cassandra3
driver3
fs2
asynchronous2
doobie2
zio1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pashnik/dotfiles
Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
Pashnik/ICFPC_2012
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 24 pushes in 25 days
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