🟢 Open to work

Backend · DevOps · Infrastructure Engineering

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name: Nikolay
handle: Bitnik212
role: Backend & Infrastructure Engineer
status: Open to work

interests:
  - backend services
  - infrastructure as code
  - self-hosting
  - linux networking
  - automation
  - distributed systems

current_mode: "build it → deploy it → automate it → monitor it"

I like working across the boundary between application code and infrastructure — from API design and backend services to Linux networking, virtualization, deployment automation, VPNs, and the machines everything runs on.

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⚙️ Tech stack

Backend

Infrastructure & DevOps

Tools I spend suspicious amounts of time with

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🚀 Featured work

Most of my newer projects live in GitLab group namespaces rather than directly under Bitnik212/*.
They're still my projects — the namespace just keeps related services together.

📖 TachiProxy / ReManga High-performance Ktor proxy and scraper service for ReManga with a local persistence and caching layer. Background synchronization, PostgreSQL/Exposed, Flyway migrations, S3 image caching, Swagger/OpenAPI, and Docker deployment. Kotlin Ktor PostgreSQL Exposed Koin S3 Docker	🌪️ Cyclone Node Compact Ktor edge service for qBittorrent that exposes a cleaner application-facing API. Includes typed torrent operations, categories/tags, file priorities, live updates over SSE, Swagger/OpenAPI, Koin, and Docker. Kotlin Ktor qBittorrent SSE OpenAPI Koin Docker
📰 Bonch News Platform Full-stack news platform built around a Ktor backend and React admin panel. Features a custom Backend-Driven UI, automated content parsing, PostgreSQL persistence, Flyway migrations, Docker Compose, and GitLab CI/CD. News API · Schedule API Kotlin Ktor React TypeScript PostgreSQL Docker GitLab CI	☁️ moe.bitt.cloud Backend + frontend project split into dedicated repositories. The backend uses Ktor with OpenAPI/Swagger, PostgreSQL, Exposed/R2DBC and distributed task scheduling; the frontend is React + TypeScript + Vite. Backend · Frontend Kotlin Ktor PostgreSQL R2DBC React TypeScript Vite
▶️ MyTube A newer full-stack project organized as separate backend and frontend repositories. Ktor/JVM 21 on the backend; React 19 + TypeScript + Vite on the frontend with TanStack Query, Zustand, Zod, Vitest, and Husky. Backend · Frontend Kotlin Ktor React TypeScript TanStack Query Zustand Vitest	🏠 homelab My home infrastructure on Proxmox — where the infrastructure side of my work lives. Provisioning, configuration management, self-hosting, and automation experiments using Terraform, SaltStack, Linux, and containers. Proxmox Terraform SaltStack Linux Docker

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🧠 Current playground

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                      │
│   backend APIs        Linux networking               │
│   self-hosting        infrastructure as code         │
│   containers          VPN / routing                  │
│   observability       distributed services           │
│   virtualization      automation                     │
│                                                      │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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🛰️ Elsewhere

Most of my newer backend projects live across GitLab group namespaces.

gitlab.com/users/Bitnik212/contributed

"I build the service and the machine it runs on."