Nikolay Golikov

Nikolai Golikov

Born: 1983, Moscow

Residence: Tbilisi, Georgia

Software Developer, System Architect

Main Areas: Embedded systems, Operating systems, InfoSec

Skills:

Experience in designing both software and hardware architectures (at the IP-block level)
Experience with architectures: ARM (v7, v7-m), MIPS (32, 64), NIOS II, Xtensa, AVR, PIC18
Main programming languages: C, C++, assembler (for any architecture with documentation)

Education:

2021-2022 Moscow Anthropological School
2012 Summer System School (Ksys Labs in collaboration with TU Dresden and Genode Labs GmbH)
2010-2015 Russian Technological University
2004-2007 Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy
2002-2004 D.I. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia

Previous and Current Places of Employment:

Keen Association

2016-…

Embedded software developer. Software development for electronic musical instruments.

Tasks:

Firmware development (microcontrollers: Kinetis, Esp32, atmega, pic18, languages: C++, C, assembler)
Development of a custom lightweight drivers library (C++)
Profiling and optimization of real time code

Scientific Technical Centre “Atlas”

2018-2022

System architect on a network processor chip project. Technical lead.

Tasks:

Designing part of the chip architecture: data plane for processing ESP protocol traffic at 10Gb/s, key management protocols accelerator, security controller
Designing the entire software stack: user space for data plane management, Linux driver stack, firmware for processor cores handling traffic, key exchange, and trusted boot, as well as their interaction protocols
Designing and developing a modified version of qemu for software testing tasks
Leading and participating in software and test development
Planning the development process together with the team leader, code review, interacting with the hardware development team and other administrative-technical tasks

Scientific Technical Centre “Atlas” / Ksys Labs

2012-2018

System Programmer. Development of solutions based on microkernel operating systems and system software for Linux.

Tasks:

Participation in porting the seL4 kernel to the MIPS architecture. Porting the CAmkES framework
Development of a user space daemon for handling ESP protocol traffic under Linux
Integration of Russian cryptographic algorithms support to the Strongswan IKEv2 daemon. Integration with user space data plane
Decomposition of the Linux kernel: transferring the device mapper subsystem to a user space service for the Genode OS
Development of drivers and services for Genode OS Framework
Creating firmware based on L4Re and L4Linux

Publications:

Vasily Sartakov, Nikolai Golikov. Approaches to the Fragmentation of the Paravirtualization System. // Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Tools and Methods for Program Analysis. – 2014. – pp. 184–190 https://tmpaconf.org/images/pdf/2014/vasily sartakov nikolay golikov ksys labs odintsovo_.pdf