Vera Nikalaikina
Senior Software Engineer at BidMachine
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolVera Nikalaikina is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with 10 years of experience specializing in Scala and functional programming. She has built high-throughput ad tech systems, currently contributing to BidMachine’s ad exchange after multi-year roles at Evolution Gaming and Adform. Comfortable in both JVM and functional paradigms, she brings pragmatic design to distributed systems and real-time processing. Her background includes a transition from Java to Scala early in her career, giving her strong interoperability and migration instincts. Vera pairs academic grounding from Belarusian State University with hands-on production experience scaling critical services. Colleagues rely on her to simplify complex concurrency and latency challenges into maintainable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Faculty of information technologies and control, Bachelor's degree, Faculty of information technologies and control at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Russian, English
Github Skills (15)
scala-native9
dotty9
scala8
routes7
searching6
api5
continuation4
react4
scheduler3
job-scheduler3
docker3
monads2
functional-programming2
tagless-final1
monix1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikalaikina/poehali
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 87 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
apireactcheaproutessearching
nikalaikina/100-hours-challenge
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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