> whoami
Hello, world! I am Nikita 🦀 Bishonen 🦀 Puzankov (He/Him):
- Seasoned Rust Developer
- Master in Information Systems
- Experienced in boths Webs (2 and 3)
Last 16personalities test result decided that I am -- Commander, yet Leader is what I would prefer to describe myself, if you will ask. I am in love with DevOps culture, always working on a balance between speed and quality of deliveries by forging my development workflow and sharing best practices with others.
Experience
2025-2026: Software Engineer at Supra 🏎️ (Rust, RocksDB)
- Different work on L1 and Consensus
- Implementation of Nodes Observability - Instrumentation and Infrastracture configuration (Grafana modern stack +
tracing) - MVP "Transactions Inclusions and Events Emissions Proofs for Multichain Ledger"
2022-2025: Principal Software Engineer at Yat 🖖 (Rust/SQL/K8s)
- Decomposition of Monolith into Rust microservices with GraphQL Client facing API and Kafka/gRPC inter-service communications
- Implementaion of new AuthN/Z service with SSO support
- Configuration of Github + Kubernetes CI/CD
- Performance optimizations for complex SQL queries
- Integrations with Aptos and Tari networks
- "Squad" 🦑 lead
2021-2022: Senior Developer at --NDA-- 👽 (Rust, ScyllaDB)
- Implementation of small tasks in new HFT platform
2020-2021: IT Consultant at Sprout (a.k.a. Elemy) 👶 (Rust/SQL/K8S)
- Implementation of Rust microservices for Appointments scheduling with GraphQL/gRPC
- Backend Teamlead
2020-2020: Rust Developer at Soramitsu 🇯🇵 (Rust)
- Development and Architecture of distributed ledger Iroha
2019-2020: Resource Developement Manager EPAM 🧑💼 (Java/Management)
- Head of EPAM Training Center (Samara, Russia)
2017-2019: Lead Java Developer EPAM 🏢 (Java/Spring/K8S/SQL/MongoDB)
- Development and Leadership in Well Being and Fintech projects
2013-2017: Java Developer Netcracker (Java/Spring/Docker/SQL/NoSQL)
- Development and Delivery of cloud native telecom B2B/B2C solutions
2011-2013: Web Designer [Freelance] (PHP/MySql/HTML/CSS/JS)
- Development of lod good Web Sites using Joomla
Skills
Main Expertise
My main expertise lies in web-services and different kinds of distributed systems.
| SKILL | Can Understand | Can Develop | Can Teach | Can Contribute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | ★ | ★ | ★ | ☆ |
| K8S | ★ | ★ | ☆ | ☆ |
| SQL | ★ | ★ | ☆ | ☆ |
| Distributed Ledgers | ★ | ★ | ☆ | ☆ |
| Git | ★ | ★ | ☆ | ☆ |
☆ - not an expert ★ - experienced
Open Source contributions
- New co-Maintainer of old but gold GraphQL Federation Gateway GraphGate
Hands-on experience
While my main skills were explained above, I want to mention some "hands-on experience" that may be relevant in some cases:
- Client Side development (JS/TS, Tauri, Flutter/Dart, Xilem, Ratatui)
- "NoSQL" databases (Scylla, MongoDB, Redis, Clickhouse, RocksDB)
- Different proxies and Gateways
Interests
I am a cat person 🐈. Interested and very enthusiastic about Rust 🦀, see my early talks about it before it become mainstream:
- Rust vs Java (Russian)
- Rust or There and Back again (Russian)
Occasionally do some contributions to Open-Source software projects via GitHub and GitLab.
Founder, exAdministrator and exDriver of home-town local IT Community.
Certified Technical Interviewer, trail-runner, ex-champion in sailing.