Nikita Kolmogorov
CTO at Big Whale Labs
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Kolmogorov is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience shipping scalable software across mobile, back-end, and product domains. Based in Vancouver, he has steered technical strategy at Big Whale Labs since 2021, blending engineering excellence with startup leadership. His background spans iOS development, private consultancy, and product management, including leadership roles at Invoice Simple, Bio Conscious Technologies, and Borodutch Studio, underscoring a versatile mix of delivery and entrepreneurship. On the open-source and tooling side, he contributed to the backmeupplz/voicy Telegram bot, driving language localization and API resilience, including adding Kazakh support. He also has experience as an educator at Lighthouse Labs, reflecting a commitment to mentoring the next generation of developers. He studied computer science at the University of British Columbia, laying a foundation for his interdisciplinary approach to building production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree (unfinished) Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree (unfinished) Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Russian, English, German, objective-c, swift, kotlin, javascript, typescript
Github Skills (11)
telegram-bots10
telegram-vcbot10
javascript10
node-js10
javascripts10
telegrambots10
telegramvcbot10
telegrambot10
telegram-bot10
api-design9
mongoose8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
backmeupplz/voicy
May 2018 - Nov 2022
@voicybot Telegram bot main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 627 commits, 30 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nikita focused on restructuring the code within the `@voicybot Telegram bot main repository`. Their work involved modifications to core functionalities, specifically concerning language settings and the creation of the language selection keyboard. This included the addition of new languages, such as Kazakh, as well as restructuring the helpers for the bots core functions, and updates to the API to fix errors.
telegram-botspeech-to-textbottelegamtelegram
backmeupplz/fixsleep
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
A page helping people to sleep better
Contributions:1 review, 48 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years
cssjavascriptreact
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