About

Nick Yasnogorodskyi is a Software Engineer specializing in backend development and infrastructure automation. He is a super nerd who loves Unix, Vim, CLI, and enjoys customizing and automating environments. Nick is interested in building distributed systems with high availability and is always looking for technical challenges to solve together with an experienced team. Currently, Nick is working at Orca Security as a Software Engineer. He joined as a RapidSec team member after the company's acquisition. At Orca Security, Nick has engineered new services from scratch in event-driven architecture with Kafka. He has also improved ETL throughput by 300%, using caching and concurrency, and added new data sources (AWS network-related services) to their pipeline. Prior to Orca Security, Nick worked at RapidSec as a Software Engineer. RapidSec is a SaaS platform designed to provide client-side web security, using Content Security Policy. Nick improved client-side performance by migrating to Reporting API, implemented new features by adding/changing Elasticsearch queries, and fixed UI bugs across 4 main pages. Nick has also worked at Livereach as a Software Engineer. At Livereach, he integrated Shopify to their e-commerce platform, initiated a gradual transition from Angular to React (frontend), created guidelines, created an internal library for data fetching and caching for the 3 client-side apps, and improved widgets rendering time by 60%. Nick holds a degree in Software Engineering from Lviv Polytechnic National University, which he will complete in 2025. Nick's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AWS, Kafka, ETL, Backend, infra, Elastic Search, UI, Web, Frontend, and AngularJS. With relevant experience of 1.02 years, Nick is a highly skilled Software Engineer who is always looking for new challenges to solve.