# Nikita Lyzhov

> Software Engineer |  TypeScript - Node - React - SQL

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

A software engineer with 7 years of commercial experience who specializes in creating web applications and web services in JavaScript, TypeScript, and all related technologies. Have experience in developing and maintaining medium to large-scale products using microservices on the back-end and optimization techniques on the front-end side. Also have experience contributing to open-source projects. I have established myself as a versatile software engineer who enthusiastically takes on new problems across the full stack despite the technologies. 


Specializations: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Nest.js, React, Redux, Zustand, Mobx, Jest, Next.js, HTML, CSS, SASS, Styled-Components, Webpack, SQL, NoSQL, Redis, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka.

GitHub: https://github.com/lyzhovnik

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead @ Spotnana
Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Spotnana
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Spotnana is the travel platform that connects humanity. Modernizing the infrastructure of the travel industry in order to bring freedom, simplicity, and trust to travelers everywhere. Groundbreaking Travel-as-a-Service platform revolutionizes travel for corporations and consumers, modernizes how travel suppliers sell their inventory, and enables any company to provide the world’s best global travel experiences to their customers.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Selina
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Sacramento, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Selina
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
- Creating and supporting end-to-end sub-projects using javascript full-stack technologies from PostgreSQL databases, Node.JS microservices on the back-end side, and React on the front-end side.
- Creating, supporting, improving, and refactoring microservices in Typescript using Nest.JS, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Docker.
 - Creating and supporting big, scalable, optimized, and responsive front-ends using React, Redux, Zustand, React-Query, and Styled-Components.
 - Creating and automating Node.JS scripts for generating large xlsx/csv reports.
 - Writing clean and efficient code by constantly adding e2e/unit tests for the back-ends and front-ends, as well as conducting code reviews
 - Developing integrations with third-party applications, such as Zappier, Salesforce, and hotel accommodation systems using Kafka and Node.js

### Software Engineer @ SysGears
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
- Implementing SPAs in TypeScript with React, Redux, MobX, GraphQL, Vanilla JS
- Implementing responsive user interfaces using Antd design, Material-UI, Bootstrap, Sass
- Designing and developing mobile apps with React Native, Expo, and GraphQL
- Implementing backend using TypeScript, Express, Knex, PostgreSQL, TypeORM, Golang, Echo, Sqlx
- Writing unit tests and e2e tests with Jest, Enzyme, and React Testing Library. Also doing sanity testing at the end of each release using Test-rail
- Managing end-to-end deployment flow of front-ends, including deploying and supporting applications on production using Docker and private Linux servers
- Mentoring intern developers and onboarding new engineers on the project
- Collaborating with the Business team to gather requirements for new features and utilizing Jira for documenting and creating action items.

### Software Engineer @ Mobilshina
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
- Developing and maintaining e-commerce applications using PHP and JavaScript
- Designing and developing responsive and adaptive user interfaces with jQuery and Bootstrap
- Integrating applications with third-party APIs
- Developing automated node.js scripts for uploading products from suppliers


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering
Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering
Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lyzhov-nikita

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Last updated: 2026-03-20