Summary
Viktor Nikitash is a pragmatic software development engineer with 10 years of experience building and optimizing backend systems across startups and large cloud platforms, currently at Amazon in Seattle. He has a strong track record in Golang, PHP/Laravel, REST API design, integrations with third-party services, and database performance tuning, having moved from senior roles into leadership and hiring responsibilities. Viktor has repeatedly delivered from-scratch server architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and test-driven deployments, and has taught and mentored developers as a lecturer and team lead. Comfortable in cross-functional collaboration with DevOps, QA, and product owners, he combines hands-on coding with people-first leadership. An interesting through-line in his career is repeatedly architecting integration layers and proxy services to accelerate delivery of new third-party connectors.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Russian, Ukrainian