Nick Halavins
Founder & CEO at AntiChat, Inc.
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Halavins is a serial founder and CEO with 15+ years building large-scale consumer platforms, most notably scaling AntiLand/AntiChat to 50M+ users and $16M in revenue while remaining profitable since 2016. He combines product-led growth, remote engineering leadership of 80+ specialists, and deep expertise in trust & safety—authoring 600+ algorithms (rule-based, ML, LLM) to keep abuse under 1% and integrating NCMEC safeguards. A Stanford CS master and former edtech and e-commerce entrepreneur, Nick has closed exits and raised institutional funding across multiple ventures in Eastern Europe and the US. He pairs technical rigor with narrative instincts: beyond tech he’s an award-winning screenwriter (ALEX) and collaborates with leading scientists on science-fiction projects that probe ethics and human agency. Rare among founders, he actively blends storytelling and AI design to shape products that protect privacy while amplifying honest human connection.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Goethe Institute of German LanguageInternational Economic Relationships, International Economic Relationships at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) MFA Russia MGIMOspecialist Programming, specialist Programming at Progmeistars - School of ProgrammingMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Russian, German, Latvian
Github Skills (54)
mbaas10
parseui10
graphql-api10
expressjs10
bolts-framework10
object-storage10
file-storage10
sdk10
parse10
graphql10
rest-api10
nodejs10
backend10
mongodb10
relay10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
halavins/SwiftUI-Chat
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
The world's first open-source chat app in SwiftUI. Written right during the Apple WWDC2019 Event, when SwiftUI was presented to the global iOS developers community in Beta. Your improvements to the repository are welcome
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
developers-communitychat-appchatswiftios
halvini/github-test
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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