Nikita Rusetskii

Software engineer · Belgrade

Software engineer at KMS Lighthouse, based in Belgrade. I work on Solr-based search and build AI tooling for our R&D team.

Interested in search architecture, Lucene internals, RAG, and agent harnesses for software engineering.

Before moving to Serbia in 2023, I was a PhD student supervised by Denis Sidorov, working on optimization and ML methods for power systems in collaboration with the Intelligent Power Grid Lab at Inha University.

Two-time 3rd-place winner of the SI Analytics satellite imagery track at JunctionX Seoul: SmartMonitor (2020), SmartChange (2021).

Open source

fix(riptide-daemon): resolve relative worktree paths to absolute before validation
humanlayer/humanlayer #1159
Open
fix(riptide-daemon): handle unborn default branch in workspace preflight
humanlayer/humanlayer #1158
Open
fix(riptide-daemon): use platform path separator in whitelist boundary check
humanlayer/humanlayer #1157
Open
fix(riptide-daemon): use path.sep in artifact boundary check
humanlayer/humanlayer #1156
Open
Avoid creating a new commit when opening IndexWriter on the latest commit
apache/lucene #16948
Open
fix(server): don't watch git-ignored folders on Linux
JetBrains/thinkrail #1137
Merged
fix: refuse prompts over the 16 MiB WebSocket frame cap instead of raising it
JetBrains/thinkrail #1018
Merged
fix(web): let the Settings model lists scroll with the wheel
JetBrains/thinkrail #1166
Merged
All 11 pull requests

Seoul, 2025
Busan, 2025
Inha University, 2025
Busan, 2025
Inha University, 2019
Seoul, 2019