Hi, my name is Nikita. I am a low-level Rust engineer.
I work at Cloudflare. My focus is databases and query engines. Previously, I worked on MongoDB, ClickHouse and Yandex Database. I also worked on storage solutions in an NDA high-frequency trading company and performance optimisations in Prisma ORM.
Outside of work, I'm a role-playing games nerd. I run a D&D campaign for my friends and love experimenting with new systems. If you know a cool RPG or an adventure for one, I would be very interested to hear about it!
Some articles from my blog you might like:
- What's that touchscreen in my room?
- Inside New Query Engine of MongoDB
- How Binary JSON Works in YDB
- Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM
- Rhino: Low-latency Key-value Database in Rust @ RustLab 2024
- Fast and efficient network protocols in Rust @ EuroRust 2024
- Low-Latency Mesh Services Using Actors @ P99 Conf 2024
- Type-safe and fault-tolerant mesh services with Rust @ Rust Nation 2024
- SQL's Inner Workings @ Handmade Seattle 2023
- (RU) Introducing JSON Support @ Yandex Database New Features Overview 2020
- (RU) ClickHouse Query Profiler @ Highload++ 2019
- (RU) ClickHouse Query Profiler @ ClickHouse Meetup Novosibirsk 2019 (part 1, part 2)
- The best way to reach me is by email: hi@laplab.me. I usually respond within the same day if I'm not on vacation.
- Memes and experiments can be found on Mastodon.
- You can also ping me on LinkedIn.