Anton Nikiforov
Staff Engineer at Illumio
Los Gatos, California, United States
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SeniorAnton Nikiforov is a seasoned software engineer and staff-level leader with 15+ years building scalable web applications across fintech, ad-tech, and enterprise SaaS. Based in Los Gatos, CA, he currently serves as Staff Engineer at Illumio, guiding architecture and delivery while maintaining a hands-on frontend emphasis. He has led frontend initiatives from concept to production, including building a reusable UI component library at WorkBoard, migrating to micro frontends, containerizing apps, and driving accessibility improvements per WCAG 2.1. His background spans PHP/Yii, C#, Ruby on Rails, Angular, and, in recent years, TypeScript/React dashboards, with experience across the full stack and dev-ops practices like Docker. He is a strong advocate of testable, scalable code, with exposure to DDD, TDD/BDD, and a passion for turning ideas into tangible products. He holds an MS in Physics and a Diploma in High Tech Management from Southern Federal University, reflecting a blend of analytical rigor and leadership capability.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian
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Github Skills (23)
forms10
webpack10
angular10
angular-cli9
macos6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby-on-rails-76
fqdn6
bash6
regex6
ruby6
sequelpro6
mysql6
nodejs3
node-js2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hendricson/code-challenges
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
hendricson/sample-angular-reactive-forms-modal
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 months
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