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Nikita Tikhomirov

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Minsk, Belarus

Toptal member since October 28, 2019

Expertise

PHP Laravel Nginx Linux MySQL JavaScript Java Amazon S3 AWS

Bio

For more than a decade, Nikita has been working as a software developer in outsourcing and product companies. Currently, his passion lies in the creation of impactful applications, potentially gaining millions of users. All in all, Nikita is a seasoned web developer who has coordinated development flows from scratch, launched three projects, managed a team of five developers, and coordinated the simultaneous builds of three-to-six projects.

Portfolio

Vicman

Solidity, Ethereum, Blockchain, GNU, Puppet, Zabbix, Debian Linux, Docker...

INP

Xen, GNU, Debian Linux, JOGL, OpenGL, Eclipse RCP, Java

GNU, Debian Linux, NGINX, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PHP

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Windows, Subversion (SVN), Git, PhpStorm, IDEA IDE, Eclipse

The most amazing...

...software I've built was a smart contract for the Ethereum blockchain.

Work Experience

Technical Team Lead

2014 - PRESENT

Vicman

Coordinated the development from scratch to launch of three projects involving web applications and blockchain-related projects, including smart contracts.
Managed a team of five developers and coordinated the simultaneous development of three-to-six projects.
Migrated servers to AWS EC2 and database servers to AWS RDS which improved the stability of the services and significantly lowered the monthly bill for the infrastructure.
Refactored the main projects which simplified further development.

Technologies: Solidity, Ethereum, Blockchain, GNU, Puppet, Zabbix, Debian Linux, Docker, Amazon EC2, Sphinx Search Engine, NGINX, MySQL, Java, PHP

Java Developer and System Administrator

2010 - 2014

INP

Developed from scratch a Java desktop application for conducting scientific experiments and managing experimental data.
Developed an OpenGL-based plot viewer.
Migrated company network services from Windows to Debian GNU/Linux servers.
Upgraded the network to improve stability and security.

Technologies: Xen, GNU, Debian Linux, JOGL, OpenGL, Eclipse RCP, Java

PHP Developer

2006 - 2010

SD

Developed several websites like a product catalog or an online shopping cart from scratch using a corporate PHP framework.

Technologies: GNU, Debian Linux, NGINX, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PHP

Experience

FeedDigest

http://feeddigest.com/

On this project, my job was not only to be a developer team leader but to expand the initial project idea based on the data we discovered via analysis.

Accessify

https://accessify.com/

On this project, my job was to supervise the development and to build a platform that would analyze millions of websites while on a tight schedule and with a minimum budget.

Solucija

http://solucija.com/

I worked as a team leader and a developer of a Q&A site search engine for this project.

Cryptopicture

https://etherscan.io/address/0x8ccbe832cf62077662abee27a9f142417f1f85b4#code

I learned everything about blockchains and smart contract development while working in an extremely tight schedule to develop a smart contract for the project all by myself. The project had a successful presale, and the smart contract code worked as expected. I also built an upgradeable smart contract with separate entry points, logic, and data storage.

Education

2005 - 2010

Master's Degree in Physics

BSU | Belarusian State University - Minsk, Belarus

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2019 - PRESENT

Data-driven Product Management by GoPractice! Simulator

GoPractice, Inc.

Skills

Libraries/APIs

OpenGL, JOGL

Tools

Git, Subversion (SVN), Eclipse RCP, PhpStorm, Eclipse IDE, Vagrant, Puppet, Zabbix, IDEA IDE, RabbitMQ, ELK (Elastic Stack), NGINX, AWS CloudFormation

Languages

PHP, Java, Solidity, JavaScript

Frameworks

Laravel, Spring

Paradigms

Agile, Scrum, Kanban

Platforms

Windows, Debian Linux, Xen, Eclipse, Amazon EC2, Docker, Linux, Debian, Blockchain, Ethereum, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Storage

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Aurora, Sphinx Search Engine

Industry Expertise

Project Management

Other

GNU, Product Management, Product Ownership, Team Leadership, Lambda Functions

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