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I'm Nikolai.

Data & software engineer building cloud-native data infrastructure, ETL/ELT pipelines, and analytics & business intelligence.

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Experience

  • Software Engineer @ Balcony Technology Group

    Data infrastructure for real-estate tokenization and blockchain-based asset management. Built CI/CD across AWS & GCP (−80% PR cycle time), Airflow orchestration on Astronomer (−95% runtime), and a BigQuery + DBT transformation framework.

    Feb 2025 — Present

  • Data Engineer @ Cherre

    Kubernetes-native, config-driven connectors with DBT & Dockerized Python ETL. Delivered Looker dashboards powering $15B in real-estate AUM analytics and led observability across 180+ pipelines (Karate, Databand, DataDog).

    Aug 2022 — Feb 2025

  • Data Engineer @ Mashey

    Orchestrated ETL integrating 100+ external sources into data lakes and warehouses using Python, Singer-Meltano, Poetry, and Docker. Applied scikit-learn/TensorFlow and conversational AI to property search and price prediction.

    Dec 2021 — Aug 2022

  • Founder & President @ Quantitative Investment Society LLC

    Ann Arbor, MI

    Founded the first quantitative-finance society at the University of Michigan; grew it into an LLC managing $200K in investor capital. Led teams in backtesting, data processing, and algorithmic strategy implementation.

    May 2021 — Present

  • Founder & Data Engineer @ Jefferson Street Capital Advisors

    Deployed Airflow on GKE (Kubernetes + Helm) orchestrating 100+ pipeline workflows; cut GCP costs 60% across GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Run. Built a rotating-proxy web-scraping framework in Python.

    Apr 2021 — Present

  • Python Developer @ BIRDS Lab — University of Michigan Biorobotics

    Ann Arbor, MI

    Migrated legacy robotics code from Python 2 to 3 with backward compatibility, and built QA systems and automated testing for ETL and dynamic data-stream handling in robotic control systems.

    Jul 2019 — Feb 2020

  • Petty Officer 3rd Class — Heavy Equipment Operator @ United States Navy

    Operated heavy equipment — bulldozers, pile-drivers, and graders — for roadway, pier, airport, and forward-operating-base construction.

    Jun 2018 — Apr 2021

Skills

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Airflow
  • DBT
  • BigQuery
  • Snowflake
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Airbyte
  • Looker
  • scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow
  • CI/CD
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Education & Certifications

  • University of Michigan

    B.S. in Computer Science

    2016 — 2020

    Ann Arbor, MI

  • University of Michigan

    B.S. in Economics

    2016 — 2020

    Ann Arbor, MI

  • Google

    Google Cloud Certified — Associate Cloud Engineer

    2022

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Projects

Rotating-Proxy Web Scraper

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A Python package enabling VPN-backed web scraping to bypass IP blocks — rotational proxies, multithreading, and pluggable web-drivers for resilient, versatile data collection.

  • Python
  • Selenium
  • Proxies
  • Docker

Real-Estate Price ML & Conversational Search

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Predictive models estimating property prices from location, size, and amenities, plus a conversational-AI layer improving property search, inquiries, and recommendations.

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow

Quant Backtesting & Strategy Engine

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Cloud-native data pipelines for equities, ETFs, and bonds feeding backtesting and algorithmic strategy implementation — the foundation of a society that grew into a $200K LLC.

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • GCP
  • AWS

Real-Estate Analytics at Scale

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Looker dashboards and DBT models powering $15B in real-estate AUM analytics, with data observability across 180+ pipelines.

  • DBT
  • BigQuery
  • Looker
  • Kubernetes
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Let's Connect

I'm always open to discussing new opportunities, interesting projects, or just having a chat about technology. Feel free to reach out!