About

Nikita Kazakov is a versatile full-stack software engineer with over 7 years of experience as a petroleum engineer and software product manager. He is currently working as a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer at Design Pickle, where he has led and managed an engineering team to re-design and implement a new front-end user interface, built a greenfield leave management system, integrated instant bank verification/ACH payments with Plaid and Stripe, and more. Nikita specializes in Agile (SCRUM), object-oriented programming, MVC framework, debugging, and is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Git, GitHub, RubyMine, Slack, Asana, Jira, Rspec, Capybara, Ruby on Rails 5, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS/SASS, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, SQL, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Engine Yard, REST API, Sidekiq, Redis, HAML, Unix command line, Docker, AWS, S3, New Relic, Hubspot API, and Pendo API. Prior to his current role, Nikita worked as a Product Manager for Field Planning and Automatic Field Planner Applications at LMK Resources (Geographix), where he developed oil and gas multi-well field planning software, integrated Field Planner with Well Planner and Pro 3D, created a product roadmap and release schedule, and led the creation of a fully automatic field planning tool. He also conducted technical sales demos to clients and generated over $300k of revenue since the product was released to the market. Nikita holds an M.S in Petroleum Engineering (Stimulation and Fracturing) and a B.S in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is proficient in Ruby, AWS, New Relic, SQL, Integration, Redis, Docker, Javascript, Search, Frontend, Backend, and has 11.96 years of relevant experience. He is also a mentor and on-boards incoming software developers, conducts technical interviews for new engineering hires, and has built a culture of documentation by creating a software engineering wiki and actively encouraging engineers to document code. Nikita is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions that meet business needs.