Yevgeny Nikitin
Engineering Manager at Etsy
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYevgeny Nikitin is an engineering manager based in Massachusetts with a strong 3-year leadership track record and over a decade of hands-on backend engineering across security, cloud, and data-heavy SaaS platforms. He advanced from building scalable energy analytics and healthcare systems to shaping application security and orchestration at Rapid7 and Etsy, blending deep experience with Postgres, Kubernetes, Go, Azure, and AWS serverless patterns. Yevgeny has designed and maintained APIs, databases, and event-driven services that process terabytes of data, and he brings practical knowledge of both relational and NoSQL stores to bear on reliability and performance challenges. Now leading appsec teams at Etsy, he combines developer empathy with a security-first mindset, helping teams ship secure, automated workflows. Notably, his background includes maintaining a C/C++ energy modeling engine and migrating services between major cloud providers, indicating comfort with complex legacy systems as well as modern cloud-native stacks.
2 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at UMass Boston
English
Github Skills (26)
php10
google-cloud10
opentelemetry10
php-library10
logging10
google-cloud-platform9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
google-auth-library9
otel9
cloud-platform9
google-auth8
authentication8
google7
auth7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ynikitin-etsy/opentelemetry-php
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
The OpenTelemetry PHP Library
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
The OpenTelemetry PHP Library
Contributions:7 reviews, 3 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year
opentelemetry-phpphptracingloggingotel
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