Sergei Nikishin
Senior Data Engineer
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSergei Nikishin is a Senior Data Engineer with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a decade focused on data engineering and architecture, currently shaping scalable data platforms at Amazon. He has founded and led Upbit Technologies, architected cloud data lakes and BI solutions across enterprises like First Data and Expedia, and consistently blends Big Data technologies (AWS, Hadoop, Redshift, Spark) with strong logical and physical data modeling. Known for turning fragmented toolchains into consolidated data strategies, he drove CMDB/data lake integrations, RPA initiatives, and performance-optimized ETL at scale. A pragmatic coder and certified developer, he contributes to open-source infrastructure (fixing and hardening DSC web application resources) and prefers solutions that reduce operational cost without sacrificing analytics performance. Based in Sammamish, WA, he brings a rare mix of deep technical craft, cross-vertical domain experience, and founder-level product sensibility.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
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Github Skills (4)
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dsc10
iis10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dsccommunity/WebAdministrationDsc
Jul 2015 - May 2016
This module contains DSC resources for deploying and configuring web servers and related components.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 10 PRs, 67 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sergei primarily contributed to bug fixes within the `xWebApplication` DSC resource, specifically addressing issues in the `Set-TargetResource` function. Their work involved correcting variable usage, updating verbose messages, and implementing changes to improve the resource's stability, particularly related to handling physical paths and application pools. The user also removed redundant code elements and refactored the code.
deployingwindows-serveriisdscpowershell
SNikalaichyk/cMsmq
Sep 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
dsc
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