# Nik Gridinskiy

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikgridinskiy

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## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Credit Karma
Jan 2016 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
* Designed an in-sourced, light weight dependency injection model based on thin cake pattern in scala, as well as a suite of other productivity libraries for developing microservices. This has improved an existing development process by removing friction with creating and deploying brand new services.
* Wrote numerous microservices as part of a large initiative to restructure our org, as a data platform for the rest of the company.
* Architected and took to production, a data pipeline for delivering credit monitoring alerts from the bureaus to the notifications team.
* Improved ingestion times of new report pulls for machine learning algorithms, from 500 ms down to 25.
* Mentored and taught scala to a team of 8 people, going from basics all the way to higher kinded types and functional programming.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sparkcentral
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Led a team to develop mobile in - app messaging platform for Sparkcentral. 
* Rewrote major parts of the Facebook integration, to scale up and out using scala and akka, which allowed sparkcentral to save on infrastructure.
* Tackled issues associated with rapid growth of the organization and the rising software complexity by applying domain driven design principles and continuous delivery to an existing monolith(microservice migration).

### Software Engineer @ SpotXchange
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
* Worked on a very large scale real time bidding software that scales across several data centers around the world as a full stack developer.
 * Migrated our traditional LAMP stack to HHVM, nginx and FastCGI in an attempt to improve performance.
 * Created a brand new binary CQL 3 protocol connector for Cassandra one of the few working ones for PHP.
 * Modified an in-house Java real time revenue forecasting tool to be used as a restful api by publishers in order to help predict the revenue generated by their campaigns.
 * Put together a development environment using Vagrant and Chef solo that was later adopted by other engineers.

### Java Developer @ IQNavigator
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
* Worked on SOAP web services for particular features within our application.
 * Worked with FUSE Enterprise Service Bus to develop RESTful services based on HR-XML.
  * Modeled business processes for different expense approval workflows for fortune 500 companies within our systems.
  * Was the point of contact for implementing and troubleshooting single sign on implementation based on SAML 2.0 for my agile team.
  * Facilitated new client implementation by constructing batch file integration into our system using Spring integrations in combination with a proprietary integration framework.

### Computer Science and Mathematics Tutor @ Metropolitan State University of Denver
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
· Provided tutoring in Computer Science, and Mathematics up to Calculus III
                    on a 1 on 1 basis.
· During the summer helped run a summer science camp for middle school
                    students.

### Front Desk Assistant @ Metropolitan State University of Denver
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
·   Performed office tasks such as filing and data entry.
                  ·   Helped facilitate communication between the students and staff.
                  ·   Organized and helped prepare appointments for the whole office.
                  ·   Helped run the reception desk during peak activity.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science; Applied Mathematics
Metropolitan State University of Denver

### High School Diploma
Monarch High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gridinskiy
- Portfolio: https://ngrid.me
- Portfolio: https://blog.ngrid.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-12