Artem Nikitin

Software Engineer

Berlin, Germany13 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Saved $400k/year through cloud resource optimization.
Migrated CI workloads to serverless, cutting costs by 95%.
Designed CI infrastructure for Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure and CI/CD specialist with extensive cloud experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

InfrastructureEngineering ProductivityAwsCi/cdCloud ComputingPerformance Testing

Other Skills

AWS LambdaAgile MethodologiesAndroidAutomationBDDBurp SuiteCICI systemContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)CosmosDBDevOpsDockerGatlingGradleGroovy

About

I'm a Principal Software Engineer with a focus on infrastructure, tooling, and engineering productivity. My expertise includes: - writing code mostly in Go nowadays, but also with quite a lot of Java experience and a bit of Groovy, Scala, and Python in the past - developing tooling for operating production environment - AWS user since 2010 - strong background in building and managing cloud infrastructure, primarily in AWS, but also with exposure to Google Cloud and Azure - strong background in building CI/CD systems from scratch and significantly improving existing ones - optimizing end-to-end delivery process from commit to production

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Elastic

3 roles

Principal Software Engineer, Platform team

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Working on the Engagement team within the Engineering Productivity organization. It’s essentially our internal version of a Forward Deployed Engineer role. My goal is to help internal teams adopt and succeed with our tooling (including CI/CD, developer tooling, security best practices, etc) to improve efficiency and reliability across the entire engineering org.

CI/CDdeveloper toolingsecurity best practicesInfrastructureEngineering Productivity

Principal Software Engineer, Platform team

May 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

Tech Lead for Developer Experience team. We are building tools to make engineers happy and productive.
Some recent examples:
I wrote tooling to cleanup unused cloud resources which brings down dev infra costs and allowed to save ~$400k/year
Migrated all the dev/CI workloads from provisioned CosmosDB to serverless CosmosDB which brings down CosmosDB bill from $20k/month to just $1k/month and allowed to save ~200k/year

cloud resource managementserverless architecturecost optimizationAWSCI/CD

Senior Software Engineer, Elastic Cloud

Nov 2018 – May 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

I specialize in CI, infrastructure, tooling, and developer productivity. Here are my key achievements and skills in these areas:
Successfully designed and implemented CI, test infrastructure, and release automation for Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes - Kubernetes operator for Elasticsearch.
Developed internal tooling for efficient operations in the production environment.
Built and managed internal infrastructure, primarily in AWS, but also in Google Cloud and Azure.
Enhanced internal development tooling, such as enabling easy test triggering on pull requests and creating local development environments that closely resemble production setups.

CIKubernetesinfrastructure managementCI/CDInfrastructure

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System Engineer

Aug 2015 – Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

I have been responsible for CI, infrastructure, tooling, and build systems for a complex mobile SDK. Here are my notable contributions and expertise in this role:
Successfully built a cost-effective and scalable CI system for the complex mobile SDK entirely from scratch using AWS.
Introduced a serverless approach within the team, implementing a pipeline for updating Docker images in AMI, shutting down unused EC2 instances, and creating various infrastructure services like a URL shortener.
Developed a fully automated load testing process, including the creation of a load testing tool, setting up AWS infrastructure, and configuring CI for seamless load testing.

CI systemAWSload testingInfrastructureCI/CD