About
Nikita Yurasov is a Senior Software Engineer at Earlybird Venture Capital with six years of experience in data platforms, AI infrastructure, and CI/CD. His work includes building an MCP warehouse server with OAuth and PII controls for secure LLM and AI-agent access, rebuilding the CI/CD pipeline to reduce deploy times from roughly 40 minutes to 6 minutes, and migrating Airflow orchestration from managed Composer to self-hosted GKE. He also created the open-source dbt-af project, which handles about 8,900 daily operations across 4,700 tables and 130 DAGs, and works with tools including Python, TypeScript, SQL, BigQuery, Terraform, and GCP.
Experience
- Earlybird Venture CapitalSenior Software Engineercurrent2025 — presentBerlin, Germany
- TolokaSenior Data Engineer2024 — 2025Berlin, Germany
- TolokaData Engineer2023 — 2024Belgrade, Serbia
- YandexMachine Learning Developer2021 — 2023Moscow, Russia
- ADV GroupData Scientist2021Moscow, Russia
- ADV GroupJunior Data Scientist2020 — 2021Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Education
- Higher School of EconomicsBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Security2017 — 2023
Skills & more
Apache AirflowGoogle BigQueryGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)Python (Programming Language)SQL3PySpark2Docker ProductsTerraformMicrosoft AzureAzure Databricks3LinuxGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)
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GitHubPostgreSQLMapReduceAzure Data LakeDockerInfrastructure as code (IaC)Model Context Protocol (MCP)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Platform EngineeringData EngineeringExtract, Transform, Load (ETL)Cloud ComputingLanguages English · German · Russian
From Nikita's professional profile.
Colleagues at Earlybird Venture Capital
Akash Bajwa
Principal at Earlybird Venture Capital
Andre Retterath
General Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital
Ben Wilkening
Vision Lab Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital
Benedetta Montani
Fund Management at Earlybird Venture Capital
Christian Nagel
Investor at Earlybird Venture Capital
Dan Lupu
Investor at Earlybird Venture Capital
David Kozisek
IT Officer at Earlybird Venture Capital
Denis Jesske
Accountant at Earlybird Venture Capital
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Nikita Yurasov?
- Nikita Yurasov is a Senior Software Engineer at Earlybird Venture Capital with six years of experience in data platforms, AI infrastructure, and CI/CD. His work includes building an MCP warehouse server with OAuth and PII controls for secure LLM and AI-agent access, rebuilding the CI/CD pipeline to reduce deploy times from roughly 40 minutes to 6 minutes, and migrating Airflow orchestration from managed Composer to self-hosted GKE. He also created the open-source dbt-af project, which handles about 8,900 daily operations across 4,700 tables and 130 DAGs, and works with tools including Python, TypeScript, SQL, BigQuery, Terraform, and GCP.
- Where does Nikita Yurasov work?
- Nikita Yurasov is Senior Software Engineer, Data at Earlybird Venture Capital.
- Where did Nikita Yurasov go to school?
- Nikita Yurasov studied at Higher School of Economics (Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Security).
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