Nick Halavins
Founder & CEO
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 (45)
parseui10
graphql-api10
bolts-framework10
parse-platform10
nodejs10
rest-api10
backend10
mongodb10
relay10
graphql9
parse-server9
mbaas9
object-storage9
objective-c9
graphql-relay9
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
iosswiftui
halavins/lifeDimensions
Apr 2025 - Apr 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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