Summary
Nikita Zadiriushko is a software engineer specializing in data and infrastructure with over a decade of hands-on experience and more than 15 years in engineering leadership roles. Currently at Apple, he architects Spark/Scala and Airflow pipelines and brings functional programming rigor to large-scale data workflows. His background spans cloud-native systems at Grid Dynamics—designing GCP/Spanner solutions, CI/CD, and leading cross-functional teams—and deep mobile and test automation expertise dating back to iOS/Android projects and financial systems automation. Known for blending low-level engineering (Java, Python, SQL) with platform thinking, he excels at turning complex operational requirements into maintainable, production-grade systems. Based in Greater Seattle, he pairs academic research roots with practical delivery, often bridging research-style problem solving and hands-on implementation.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bundeswehr University Munich
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Russian, English, German