# Nikita Chernyi > Principal Backend Engineer: Go, distributed systems, federated protocols (Matrix), and payments. Founder of etke.cc, a bootstrapped managed Matrix hosting service. Thirteen years in production, nine in Go. EU-remote, based in Porto, Portugal. This is the machine-readable index for Nikita Chernyi's CV. The same content is available as HTML, Markdown, and a one-page PDF. ## CV - [Full CV (Markdown)](https://rakshazi.me/index.md): the complete CV as clean Markdown - [Full CV (HTML)](https://rakshazi.me/): the web version of the CV - [One-page CV (PDF)](https://rakshazi.me/nikita-chernyi-cv.pdf): condensed single-page resume ## Work and code - [Open-source portfolio (GitHub)](https://github.com/etkecc): the etke.cc organisation, home of most of the work referenced in the CV - [etke.cc](https://etke.cc): managed Matrix hosting service, founded and engineered by Nikita - [MatrixRooms.info](https://matrixrooms.info): federated Matrix public-room search engine (MRS), built by Nikita - [Technical blog](https://etke.cc/blog): engineering write-ups ## Contact - [Email](mailto:cv@rakshazi.me): cv@rakshazi.me - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakshazi/): professional profile - [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/@aine:etke.cc): @aine:etke.cc