Vladimir Nikolić
Software Engineer For Bot Detection at Thales Cybersecurity Products
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Nikolić is a software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, scientifically rigorous systems across bioinformatics, molecular simulation, and security-focused bot detection. He has repeatedly turned research prototypes into production-grade C++/Python platforms—most notably delivering a 1000x performance boost on HTuO’s AtomForge and cutting genome assembly steps from days to minutes at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre. Comfortable leading small R&D teams, he sets engineering standards, mentors researchers, and bridges academic publication (Nature Communications, PLOS ONE) with product delivery. Now based in Vancouver and working on bot detection at Thales, he brings a rare combination of algorithmic depth, systems-level optimization, and applied research experience that excels in constrained, performance-critical domains.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Bioinformatics, 88.3%, M.Sc., Bioinformatics, 88.3% at The University of British ColumbiaB.Sc. Software Engineering, 9.54/10.00, B.Sc. Software Engineering, 9.54/10.00 at University of Belgrade
Serbian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (128)
package-management10
genomes10
openmp10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
bloom-filter10
science10
scaffold10
genome10
conda10
minimizer10
mpi10
assembler10
bioinformatics10
mer9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
petnica-meteor-group/meteor-observation-notebook
Oct 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 8 months
vlad0x00/vlad0x00.github.io
Apr 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:139 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 6 months
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