Nikolai Rekubratskii
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolai Rekubratskii is a senior software engineer based in Hamburg with 16 years of hands-on experience across backend, data engineering, and team leadership. He has led and built data teams and pipelines at companies like XING, PriceHubble, Shopify, Neon, and now Databricks, with deep expertise in Scala, Spark, Python, Ruby, Kafka and GCP. Known for founding BI teams and bootcamps, he combines hiring and mentoring skills with pragmatic architecture choices for production-scale batch and streaming systems. A conscious advocate for data governance, he has shipped annotation, reporting and classifier integrations that directly improved user-facing search and ML pipelines. Nikolai is also an active open-source contributor to projects like errbit, where he implemented integrations and refined both backend and frontend functionality, reflecting his full‑stack sensibility. His background in microelectronics and formal big-data training gives him a systems-minded approach to reliable, auditable data platforms.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Microelectronics, Microelectronics at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)Big Data, Big Data at New Professions Lab
English
Github Skills (12)
monitoring10
configuration-management10
ruby-rails10
rails10
github10
error-log10
ruby10
javascript9
api9
apim9
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
errbit/errbit
Jun 2011 - Mar 2012
The open source error catcher that's Airbrake API compliant :ukraine:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Nikolai primarily contributed to the errbit/errbit project by implementing and modifying features related to application configuration and error reporting. They introduced Sendgrid integration for email notifications, integrated GitHub links for easier navigation within the code, and updated the JavaScript notifier. The user also addressed issues with database interactions and refactored code to improve efficiency, demonstrating a focus on both backend and frontend aspects of the application. Furthermore, they updated configuration files and documentation.
airbrakerubycrash-reportingerror-monitoring
oruen/backstab
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:57 commits in 19 days
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