ViktorĀ Nikolaiev
Backend Architect In Spark at Readdle
Odesa, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
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Top SchoolViktor Nikolaiev is a seasoned backend architect with over a decade of experience designing and scaling server-side systems, currently leading backend architecture for Spark at Readdle. His career spans product-focused and platform roles at Readdle, Opera (including Opera Mobile Store), and earlier development positions at startups like Bump Networks, reflecting deep expertise in building high-throughput, user-facing services. Trained as a master in applied mathematics, he brings analytical rigor to distributed systems design and performance optimization. Based in Odesa, Ukraine, Viktor combines hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership, often bridging product requirements and long-lived backend infrastructure. An understated strength is his continuity: multi-year tenures suggest a talent for evolving systems over time rather than short-term rewrites.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Applied mathematics, Master, Applied mathematics at Odesa I.I.Mechnikov National University
English, Ukrainian, Russian
Github Skills (36)
programming-language10
interpreter10
goplus10
hashmap10
go10
orm10
golang10
generics10
orm-library10
compiler10
odin10
streaming10
database10
cdc9
concurrent9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
destel/rill
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Go toolkit for clean, composable, channel-based concurrency
Contributions:5 reviews, 69 PRs, 148 pushes in 1 year
channelsconcurrencyfunctional-programminggenericsgo
destel/awesome-go
Apr 2024 - Nov 2024
A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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