Nikita Zhukov

Nikita Zhukov

nikita@zhukov.tech

424.466.2586

www.linkedin.com/in/nik-zhukov

Full-Stack Engineer focused on XR and AI Interactions

Track record of building massive-scale applications with millions of users.
8+ years of experience developing major features of world-class mobile apps.
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Well-rounded in high-load backend architectures and systems.
Experienced in startup environments.

Technical Skills

Languages: Dart, JavaScript, Typescript, C#, PHP, Kotlin.
Frontend: Flutter, React, Angular, HTML, CSS, SCSS, jQuery, Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Google Analytics, Google Crashlytics.
Backend: NodeJS, .NET Core, Web API, MVC, SignalR, REST, Firebase, Google Cloud Messaging.
Databases, Storage, MQs: SQL, NoSQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Entity Framework, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
Other: Git, GitLab, Bitbucket, CI/CD, Vagrant, Swagger, Postman, Gradle, Microservices, Zookeeper, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK, AWS, Azure, GCP, VS Code, Sentry.

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Meta Reality Labs, New York. March 2025 - Present.

At Meta Reality Labs, I work on the identity, privacy, and telemetry infrastructure behind Meta’s XR computing: AI glasses, display glasses, the Neural Band, advanced mixed-reality headsets, and other frontier XR wearables.

My work sits deep across the stack where firmware, backend systems, and mobile apps all meet.

Created new views and improved existing UIs, enhancing overall UX and accelerating the app’s frame rate.
Designed and built scalable and efficient backend APIs, ensuring the app could handle a substantial increase in users without performance issues.
Collaborated closely with multiple stakeholders across various levels and teams, including the CEO, sales, marketing, and QA, to ensure successful app deployment, operation, and user experience.
Conducted unit testing for the entire web application, including iOS and Android apps, backend, and web UI.
Monitored logs, updated dependencies, and fixed bugs to ensure smooth operation of the mobile app.

Senior Software Engineer at perform.consulting, Santa Monica. May 2022 – February 2025.

perform.consulting is a Los Angeles-based tech career accelerator that develops elite engineering talent through deep technical mentorship and real production work with major enterprise clients and internal technology projects. My work there included two projects detailed below:

1. Lead Cross-Platform Mobile Developer for McGraw Hill; April 2023-February 2025

McGraw Hill (www.mheducation.com) is one of the world's largest educational content, software, and services providers. I designed and built crucial components of McGraw Hill's K-12 Portal and ReadAnywhere, cross-platform apps for iOS and Android with a high-load backend and over a million users. These apps are McGraw Hill's flagship products and provide educational courses, eBooks, and other resources for schools and universities worldwide. My responsibilities included:

Led key initiatives to enhance the architecture, functionality, and user experience of the K-12 Portal and ReadAnywhere apps, including their front and back end.
Led collaboration across multiple stakeholders and teams working on McGraw Hill's main products: the K-12 Portal and ReadAnywhere apps. This included coordination with the technical, product, business development, marketing, sales, and QA teams.
Ported the ReadAnywhere app from native iOS and Android versions to a unified Flutter codebase.
Designed and implemented the initial version, then led further development of a Download Manager, one of the K-12 Portal app’s core components, on which many other components and the app’s major features depended.
Engineered an innovative backend solution for seamless dynamic study materials updates in the K-12 Portal.
Designed and built a universal logging component for robust error handling and health monitoring across all the K-12 Portal and ReadAnywhere app components.
Led bug fixing for K-12 Portal and ReadAnywhere apps.
Mentored new team members.

2. Senior Software Engineer for Hypername; May 2022-April 2023

Hypername (www.hypername.org) is a startup on a mission to merge the real and digital worlds into one unified reality. It built a new form of internet presence called hypername, providing a universal human-centric internet connectivity - also known as the identity layer of the internet. Hypername is a high-level network protocol designed to transform modern-world interactions like payments, contract signing, or Craigslist transactions into in-person experiences, enhanced with a strong layer of trust and privacy. The protocol interfaces with users through a mobile app, which I helped develop:

Ported the Hypername app from its Minimum Viable Product written in JavaScript/Cordova to Flutter.
Added GUI views with extended features and functionality.
Performed testing and bug fixing for the entire Hypername project, including iOS/Android apps and the backend.

Software Engineer at Poryadok, Russia. October 2020 - May 2022

Poryadok (www.poryadok.ru) is Russia’s leading household goods marketplace. Its cross-platform app has over a million downloads and 40,000 daily active users. The app, created with Dart/Flutter, had a backend written in PHP. Its entire functionality was also available via a web version built using Angular.

I was the sole developer responsible for the mobile app on both iOS and Android and worked under the direct supervision of the company's CEO, who created the app's initial version. This unique situation allowed me to own the app's development at its fastest adoption phase. During my tenure at Poryadok, daily active users increased by over 300%, and app-generated revenue increased by over 730%. The app became the company's major channel for user engagement and revenue generation.

Created new views and improved existing UIs, enhancing overall UX and accelerating the app’s frame rate.
Designed and built scalable and efficient backend APIs, ensuring the app could handle a substantial increase in users without performance issues.
Collaborated closely with multiple stakeholders across various levels and teams, including the CEO, sales, marketing, and QA, to ensure successful app deployment, operation, and user experience.
Conducted unit testing for the entire web application, including iOS and Android apps, backend, and web UI.
Monitored logs, updated dependencies, and fixed bugs to ensure smooth operation of the mobile app.

Software Engineer at Skycount, Remote. June 2017 - August 2020.

Skycount (www.skycount.com) is a new form of ID for the internet. It allows users to personally appear in places like payments, digital documents, or even a program code in a way equal to a real physical presence with a verified ID. The application was in JavaScript, and the backend was in C# using .NET Core.

Implemented the real identity verification flow during user sign-up.
Designed and developed the device awareness feature that links the app to a specific person.
Implemented password recovery functionality on both the front end and server side.
Implemented server-side push notifications processing.
Improved the server API response time by 60% by switching to .NET async pattern.
Conducted unit and manual testing of the entire Skycount web application, including iOS and Android apps, backend, and web UI.
Performed bug fixing.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science from South Ural State University, Russia.

About Me

Though I'm confident across the entire tech stack, my strength is where the digital world interfaces with humans. When I'm not coding, you can find me performing in amateur theatre, playing the saxophone, or training in mixed martial arts. I thrive in collaborative environments, bringing a blend of fun and technical expertise to every project.