Nikolai is a Staff Software Engineering at Stripe. Prior to that he was a Tech Lead on LinkedIn’s Developer Productivity and Happiness team focused on evolving LinkedIn’s software engineering system. Nikolai’s career spans more than twenty years building software in a variety of environments, from large banks, JPMorgan Chase, to boutique software shops, Real Time Risk System, VC Funded NYC Ad Tech startups, Intent Media, to Silicon Valley, LinkedIn. Nikolai earned a graduate degree in Computer Science from NYU, and is an Adjunct CS instructor at the City College of New York.