# Nick Uraltsev > Staff Software Engineer at Chime Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nickuraltsev Software Engineer with 20 years of experience designing and building reliable, scalable, and maintainable systems. Thrive on solving complex technical problems and driving innovation. Strong expertise in distributed systems, event streaming, and cloud infrastructure. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Chime Jan 2020 – Present Designed and built a data streaming platform that powers the event-driven architecture of ChimeCore — Chime’s proprietary payment processor and ledger. The platform, built on top of Kinesis, provides strong correctness guarantees required for handling financial data, and supports features such as transactional publishing for DynamoDB and PostgreSQL, dead-letter queues, event replays, and more. Led multiple cross-organizational initiatives to reduce cloud costs at Chime, saving $15 million annually. These efforts included database storage optimizations — archiving historical data to S3, compressing and de-duplicating datasets — as well as leveraging right-sizing and autoscaling strategies across various services. Created a centralized repository for Chime’s Protobuf schemas, along with tooling and infrastructure for schema validation and multi-language code generation. Partnered with engineering teams across Chime to drive adoption and ensure consistent usage of Protobuf. Technologies used: Kinesis, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Airflow, Athena, Spark, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Go, Python, TypeScript, Protobuf. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, CA Engineer on the Streaming team, focused on Stripe’s platform for stateful stream processing built on top of Kafka and Flink. Worked on improving the reliability of Stripe’s streaming infrastructure and scaling it to support fast-growing data volumes. Led efforts to reduce operational toil for the team. Previously part of the team building Stripe Billing, a product that enables businesses to bill their customers via subscriptions and invoices. Led the design and development of several features that enabled the launch of Billing in Europe, including Credit Notes, Customer Tax IDs, and more. Technologies used: Kafka, Flink, MongoDB, Redis, ZooKeeper, Kubernetes, Terraform, Scala, Java, Go, Ruby, JavaScript, React, Protobuf. ### Senior Software Engineer @ ThinAir Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, CA Worked on the ThinAir endpoint data visibility platform that helped organizations protect sensitive information. Designed and developed the ThinAir Console, a web-based application that allowed customers to perform security investigations, configure alerts, and more. Built a data pipeline to ingest and index events from endpoints. Technologies used: PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kinesis, Redis, Python, JavaScript, Django, Flask, React. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Intermedia.net Jan 2008 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, CA Led an engineering team responsible for building SecuriSync, an enterprise file synchronization, sharing, and backup service available across desktop, mobile, and web platforms. Designed the system architecture and file synchronization algorithms. Implemented various parts of the system, from the desktop application to backend services. Previously worked on the backend of a web-based control panel that allows customers to manage their Intermedia services, including email, VoIP, and more. Technologies used: SQL Server, MySQL, Active Directory, IIS, C#, JavaScript, .NET, WCF, Node.js, React. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Scoros Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 Led a team building the backend for Eluma, a personal productivity tool that allowed users to collect, organize, and share web content. Technologies used: SQL Server, MSMQ, IIS, C#, .NET, WCF, ASP.NET MVC. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nickuraltsev --- Source: https://flows.cv/nickuraltsev JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nickuraltsev/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12