Nikita Lapkov

Senior Software Engineer

London, England, United Kingdom7 yrs 2 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in distributed systems and fault-tolerant architectures.
Proven track record in large-scale data processing solutions.
Strong background in performance optimization for query engines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused engineer specializing in SaaS and Fintech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsDatabasesPerformance ImprovementFault Tolerant SystemsC++Low Level ProgrammingLarge-scale Data Processing

Other Skills

RustClickHouseVirtual MachinesLinux DevelopmentMapReduceQuery EnginesNetworkingAPI DevelopmentVCSSQL

About

Sorry, I don't do job referrals. Not interested in algo-trading, exchanges, web3 or crypto. Global Talent UK visa holder. My main interests are Databases, Fault-tolerant Systems and Large-scale Data Processing. Checkout my technical writing at https://laplab.me/

Experience

7 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Cloudflare

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

Founding engineer at R2 SQL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-sql-deep-dive/, https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-sql-aggregations/

RustDistributed SystemsDatabases

Prisma

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2023 – Oct 2024 · 10 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

ORM team. Improving the performance of Prisma query engine

RustPerformance ImprovementDatabases

Nda high-frequency trading company

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2022 – Nov 2023 · 11 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

Core trading platform team. Implemented custom time-series solution capable of storing complex structured data and handling 500k data points per minute. Collaborated on distributed actor system in Rust: https://github.com/elfo-rs/elfo
Public talks: https://laplab.me/posts/rust-nation-uk-2024/

RustClickHouseFault Tolerant SystemsDatabases

Mongodb

2 roles

Software Engineer III

Aug 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland · Hybrid

Software Engineer II

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland · Hybrid

Query Execution team. Rewriting the query engine from scratch. More details at https://laplab.me/posts/inside-new-query-engine-of-mongodb/

C++Virtual MachinesDistributed Systems

Yandex

Software Engineer

Nov 2019 – Jul 2020 · 8 mos · Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Yandex Database Distributed Queries team. Worked on JSON querying and storage support, more details at https://laplab.me/posts/how-binary-json-works-in-ydb/. Mentioned in the list of most significant contributors.
Public talks: https://cloud.yandex.ru/events/110

C++Virtual MachinesDistributed Systems