Go lang, GraphQL, PHP (Vanilla, Symfony, Laravel), Perl, Python, C++, Redis, Memcache, Mongo, MySQL, Elastic, LEMP, LAMP, Node, Digital Ocean, AWS: CFN, EC2, S3, SQS, ASG, DynamoDB, RDS.
Drupal 8.x +, PHP, Twig, React + Redux, Vue + vuex, Vanilla, ES6, jQuery, TweenMax, Pug, HTML5, CSS3, Shopify, Liquid, SCSS/SASS, Gulp, Webpack, Frontend Security.
Docker, Kubernetes, Ubuntu 12.04 - 18.04, Fedora EE 11+, Debian/CentOS, UFW/IP tables, Windows Server 2003 - 2016, Docker, Vagrant, SMTP, DNS, High Availability, Security, Networking, AWS tools mentioned above.
PBN Automation, Consulting, Dynamic SEO Solutions, Google Structured Data, Webmaster Tools, Open Graph, Twitter, Analytics, Event Tracking, Screaming Frog, Moz, CrazyEgg.
Playlog
April 2021 — Nov 2023 (2 yrs. 8 months)
Working as a Principal Software Engineer while leveraging languages and tools such as Go lang, PHP, FFmpeg, MariaDB, PostgresQL, Rabbit, Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx and AWS + Digital Ocean to build a highly avilable and performant image+video rendering/sharing engine to to push, search, syndicate, and enhance shared content in order to deliver engaging and targeted experiences to end users.
Remine
Jan 2020 — Nov 2020 (11 months)
Working as a Software Engineer while leveraging languages and tools such as Go lang, Python, MySQL, Elasticsearch and AWS to build a highly avilable and performant engine to to push, search, syndicate, and enhance shared content in order to deliver engaging and targeted experiences to end users.
Acquia
Sept 2018 — Jan 2020 (1 yr. 5 months)
Working as a Software Engineer while leveraging languages and tools such as Go, GraphQL, PHP, JS, RDS Postgresql, Kubernetes + Docker, and RabbitMQ to build and design a highly available and performant real estate platform as a service which houses more than 50k+ agents.
Evoke Solutions
May 2017 — Sept 2018 (1 yr. 5 mos)
Working as a full stack developer and overseeing internal product development alongside the creation and maintenance of application infrastructure and security. My technical expertise is paramount in ensuring that Evoke Solutions' brand establishes itself as a trusted technical partner, advisor, and one of Toronto’s digital marketing agency leaders.
Coinbio.com - Personal Project
May 2017 — Present (2 yr. 3 mos)
A Cryptocurrency price tracking, wiki, data analysis, and exchanging tool I set out to build in May 2017. The tool launched in January 2018 with 500 preregistred users and reaching 4000 monthly users within 6 months. To date, Coinbio houses over 400M records using MongoDB, lists over 2700 different cryptocurrencies, and has exchanged over ~$10,000 dollars in digital assets utilizing Changelly's API.
Systems Administrator - Internship
May 2016 — Dec 2016 (8 mos)
- Successfully managed and supported 200 users on a daily basis
- Successfully managed 30+ servers in a clustered environment
- Helped maintain and enforce the internal security for the SiriusXM's local domain
- Helped automate Fedora and Ubuntu server deployment, along with a dashboard
- Successfully migrated and restructured a failing production environment
Freelance
Mar 2016 — Apr 2017 (1 yr, 1 mo)
- Successfully reconstructed 7 production environment sites increasing conversions by 3-15%
- Engineered a social community platform with LEMP stack horizontally scalable to house millions of users
- Reconstructed 2 stores on shopify, which increased conversion rates by 2-5% and site duration by 50-100%
- Reconstructed SEO and design on 4 sites using wordpress, which increased unique visitors by 10-30%
Jan 2016 — May 2016 (4 mos)
- Developed back-end functions for SEO automation software in a multi-site environment
- Developed back-end functions for the PBN automation software and API in a multi-host environment
- Overall application maintenance and optimization lead to an increase client base by 200 users
- Administered a clustered server environment for application processes
- Helped contribute and maintain the RankWyz WordPress plugin
Seneca College
Jan, 2014 — May, 2017
Computer Programmer Diploma.
York University
Sept, 2010 — May, 2012
Amazon Web Services
Dec, 2018
Founder @ RankWyz
"As the backend developer, Nikolay demonstrated continuous dedication to excellence and attention to detail in all aspects of the role. It has been a pleasure working with Nikolay from the very beginning, and I would jump at the chance to do it again."
Manager, Computer Services @ SiriusXM Canada
“It has been a great experience to work alongside Nick. By helping us internally manage over 200 users and our whole IT infrastructure, Nick has really helped automate and optimize some crucial IT processes during his 8 month contract. He has proven to have a strong background in security, scalability, and server automation.”
Co-founder @ VAHLT, LLC - Private IP Holding Company
“Nick has been great to work with; a very straightforward guy and we really respect and appreciate that about him. He helped us redesign and optimize our SEO for four websites within a span of 3 months. We couldn't be any happier with the results; especially with RoidTest.com, where he managed to increase conversions by 3%, traffic and engagement by 20%, and our online sales by 15-20%. We hope that we can work together again sometime in the very near future.”
Full Stack Developer @ Jam3
“Nick is the most hardworking and passionate developer I ever had the pleasure working alongside with. No matter the task at hand, he is able think outside the box to create unique solutions to complicated problems while simultaneously providing the best experience for the user. His backend expertise coupled with his frontend skills push the envelope to create robust web applications which everyone loves to use.”
Founder @ Veza Digital Agency
“Nick has been a pleasure to collaborate with over time and time again - from freelancing to traden.io to coinbio.com, his eagerness and passion helped us tackle through countless obstacles and come up with world class solutions to fundamental problems within the Financial Technology industry. His accountability to consintantly deliver qualitive and powerful work truly makes him a great addition to any team.”