# Nikolay N.

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikolayn

Extensive experience in software design and development. Key strengths in developing large scale, high performance network applications for Microsoft Windows and Linux. 

Career highlights in user experience development, network applications and web services, database applications. 

Multiple patent applications.

Specialties: C++, C#, Java, SQL
Unified Communication and Collaboration, Application and Document Sharing

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Quantum Metric
Jan 2024 – Present

### Principal Software Engineer @ ABN Software Inc
Jan 2009 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2011 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California
Google Core : multiple versions of high availability, highly scalable backends (2+ million QPS) that store user contributions / comments / posts across majority of Google products. Build on top of distributed SQL Spanner database (older versions on top of NoSQL BigTable / Megastore) . User visible products include: YouTube Comments, Chat/Hangouts, Google Photos, Google+, and many others.

Mobrank / TopPlaces: places search and recommendation engine that incorporates user location signals from multiple sources in a privacy compliant way with other quality signals for building list of recommended places to visit or assisting in reranking search results.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Cupertino, California
iTunes desktop client development, video playback rewrite, airplay integration.

### Software Design Engineer III @ Microsoft
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | Seattle, Washington
Worked on a number of high-profile Unified Communication and real time collaboration projects: Office Communicator, LiveMeeting, Windows Meeting Space / Windows Vista, Microsoft SharedView.

Key responsibilities included implementing user interface and application sharing technologies enchantments.

Latest work was firmware development for Zune HD and Zune.

### Software Design Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
Implemented in C++ and Java key new features of LiveMeeting 2005 and Office add-ins for LiveMeeting.

### Software Design Engineer (test) @ Microsoft
Jan 2001 – Jan 2004
Development of the automated tests for Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk Server 2004 orchestration engine. Also implemented key test infrastructure pieces.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Orc Software
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001
Development of iOrc - internet stock trading application using Java

### Software Engineer @ ABB
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000
Worked on a number of projects: 

* HT160 Standard Representation  (distributed computation system for modeling turbines), 

* Power Quality Web, Faults Vision, Power Quality, Oscilographics (power quality measurement, faults location reporting and localization), 

* EuroNet V.1, V.2, V.3 (integrated tool for quote preparation and order receipt)

### Game Developer @ Animatek
Jan 1997 – Jan 1998
Video game developer, worked on rendering and animation engine and on integration of it with AI engine.


## Education
### Master Of Science in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

### Master of Science in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01