Nikita Yakovenko

Software Engineer

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland10 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in distributed systems.
Proven track record in driving innovation and optimizing performance.
Expert in team leadership and cross-functional initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Reliability EngineeringSoftware DeploymentSystems Design

Other Skills

.NET.NET Core.NET Remoting.net coreAKSAgile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAmazon DynamodbAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAngularAngularJSApache KafkaCSSCapacity Management

About

Accomplished Staff Software Engineer / Engineering Leader with 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, team leadership, and scalable solution design. Proven track record in driving innovation, optimizing performance, and managing cross-functional initiatives.

Experience

Mozn

Principal Software Engineer

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Zurich, Switzerland · Remote

Real time inference
ML Ops
Development Experience
Cloud Infrastructure

Real time inferenceML OpsDevelopment ExperienceCloud Infrastructure

Google

2 roles

Tech Lead, Digital Goods

Nov 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

Capacity Management
Observability & Monitoring
Development Experience

Capacity ManagementObservability & MonitoringDevelopment Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Reliability EngineeringContinuous ImprovementComputer ScienceTeam LeadershipProblem SolvingCapacity Planning+12

Miro

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Real-time whiteboard engine optimizations
Miro Platform Design & Development

JavaReliability EngineeringContinuous ImprovementComputer ScienceTeam LeadershipProblem Solving+12

Senior Software Engineer II

Sep 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

JavaContinuous ImprovementComputer ScienceTeam LeadershipProblem SolvingCapacity Planning+10

Uber

Software Engineer

Feb 2020 – Sep 2020 · 7 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Collections and Cash-outs team
Led on-demand disbursement back-end re-design to match new UI requirements.
Improved observability of our micro-services by introducing custom go decorators for logs and metrics.
Contributed to E2E testing framework - to allow to run multiple test suite from a single binary.
Introduced Agile practices and planning to our team.

JavaContinuous ImprovementComputer ScienceProblem SolvingCapacity PlanningSoftware Deployment+8

Zylab

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Led development of "Information Extraction Platform", a distributed platform for document analytics.
Responsible for tech stack, architecture, design and deployment of the platform as well as knowledge sharing and mentoring of other team members.
Tech stack: .net core, Orleans, azure, AKS, Docker

Continuous ImprovementComputer ScienceTeam LeadershipProblem SolvingCapacity PlanningSoftware Deployment+15

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Migration of the legacy Silverlight application to modern HTML 5 stack: Angular 7+, Webpack, RxJs, SCSS.
Development of the new "Production" feature, which included a very complex UI wizard to configure document export from the system and manage the export process itself.
Introduced a dynamic rendering approach for huge data sets, which led to a great performance boost of those controls.
Introduced centralized state management to application using Ngrx.
Implemented custom test runner which combined together with some Webpack optimizations led to 10x speed increase of tests execution time.

Continuous ImprovementComputer ScienceProblem SolvingProduct ManagementPython (Programming Language)Production Systems+4