Nikolay Pomytkin

Software Engineer · nik@pomytkin.com

Hello there! I'm Nikolay, a Software Engineer at Clad (YC W23).

I graduated from the University of Maryland in 2022 with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics.

On the weekends, you'll find me cycling, running, or hanging out in NYC.


Education

University of Maryland, College Park

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | Bachelor of Arts, Economics
Aug 2018 - May 2022

GPA: 3.49

Millburn High School

Honors Graduate
Sep 2014 - June 2018

GPA: 3.89


Experience

Software Engineer

Clad (YC W23)
  • Modernizing construction management software for the telecom and utility industries
Nov 2024 - Present

Software Engineer

Capital One
Delivery Experience | Continuous Automated Refresh
  • Automating the creation, testing, and deployment of Github PRs
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024

Associate Software Engineer

Capital One
Cloud Infrastructure Automation
  • Developed and maintained a full-stack web application for the automated provisioning of AWS resources using the MERN stack
  • Helped implement a request and approval process for AWS resource provisioning, ensuring compliance with company policies and standards
  • Improved efficiency and reliability of AWS resource provisioning by automating manual processes and reducing human error
  • Built metrics dashboard with Chart.js to track request volume, provisioning turn-around time, and approval time. Insights from this dashboard led to the reduction of approval times and improvement of several internal processes for resource provisioining
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023

Tech Lead & Co-Founder

Clarissa.ai
  • Led team of 5 engineers throughout the design and development of clarissa.ai, an intelligent medical assistant with features including symptom recognition through NLP, illness tracking and diagnosis, and a patient-doctor connection platform.
  • Architected and developed full-stack web application with a React.js frontend hosted on Netlify and a RESTful Flask API.
  • Created DevOps Pipeline using GitHub Actions to deploy Dockerized backend to AWS ElasticBeanstalk.
Apr. 2020 - Aug. 2020

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of Maryland
  • Served as a teaching assistant for 3 courses: Object Oriented Programming II, Global Economics, and Engineering Ethics.
Building Secure Web Apps with Python and Flask: CMSC 388J
  • Head Student Instructor for 2 sections of 40 students, teaching course content including Web Security, Authentication, and Authorization.
  • Object-Oriented Programming: CMSC 131 & CMSC 132
    • Teaching 2 class discussion sections of 30 students on a bi-weekly basis, reviewing course content including Object-oriented Programming, Data Structures, and development with the Eclipse IDE.
    • Hold office hours to individually tutor students on debugging programs, recognizing logical and syntax errors, and properly planning and organizing projects.
    Global Economic Policies: ECON 301
    • Assisting with grading and office hours for 60 students, reviewing course content including International Trade, Economic Growth, and Economic Development.
    Engineering Ethics: ENEE 200
    • Assisting with grading and office hours for 60 students, reviewing course content including Engineering Ethics, Intellectual Property, and Engineering Management.
    • Led weekly discussion section of 15 students, reviewing reading material and discussing ethical implications of engineering decisions.
    Aug. 2019 - Present

    Infrastructure Engineering Intern

    The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
    • Developed web dashboard from scratch (using Python and Flask) to allow L1/L2 support admins to execute scripts and monitor logs on over 100 remote servers from a centralized web interface.
    • Updated shell scripts responsible for log monitoring to reduce occurrences of missing log information and eliminate 3 hour delays in log report delivery.
    Jun. 2019 - Aug. 2019

    Skills

    Programming Languages

    Typescript, Python, C, Java, Ruby, OCaml, x86 Assembly, SQL, LATEX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

    Tools & Frameworks
    Frameworks/Libraries: React, Remix, React Router, Prisma, FastAPI, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Pytest, TensorFlow, Pandas, NumPy, Spring Boot, JUnit
    Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jira.

    Amazon Web Services
    ElasticBeanstalk, EC2, Lambda, RDS, ECS, S3, SNS, SES, SQS.

    Awards & Certifications

    • Most Growth - University of Maryland Counseling Center: Guided Study Sessions Program
    • University of Maryland: President's Scholarship
    • UMD College of Computer and Mathematical Sciences: Dean's List
    • 1 st Place - Rutgers University - HackRU Spring 2019
    • Best AI/ML Hack - Rutgers University - HackRU Spring 2019
    • NYU Tandon School of Engineering: InnoVention Competition - Semi-finalist: Clarissa.ai