Nikita has been working with OpenStack Data Processing (Sahara) from the early days of the project. He has been implementing the initial version of Sahara UI which then has been accepted to main OpenStack Dashboard codebase. He added support for Sahara benchmarking for Rally project and is now responsible for Sahara scale testing and benchmarking activities in Mirantis. In addition to it Nikita is contributing Hadoop HA support to the HDP plugin. Nikita has also been participating in the OpenStack StoryBoard initiative being a core member of the team responsible for backend and SDK development.