Nick Karlov
Head Of FinTech at Burning Heroes Founders Association
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Karlov is a Head of FinTech based in London with nine years of experience building production-grade fintech, data, and AI systems that operate reliably beyond proofs of concept. He currently leads fintech platform development for a stealth private equity pooling startup valued above $100M, combining hands-on technical direction with product and go-to-market sensibilities. Previously he built and led presales and innovation teams at Tarantool, Mail.ru Group, and VK, establishing presales as a strategic function for enterprise adoption of high-performance database and platform technologies. His background as a software architect and applied mathematician (MIPT) gives him a rare blend of rigorous technical depth and practical system design. Nick also helps grow the early-stage ecosystem through organizing pitch competitions and global PM case contests, signaling a knack for bridging founders, investors, and product talent. Colleagues describe him as someone who designs for real-world failure modes and scales systems to meet the messy demands of production.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Applied Mathematics and Physics, Master of Science - MS Applied Mathematics and Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Github Skills (75)
ram10
tarantool10
in-memory10
appserver10
disk10
logger10
sql-query9
sql9
mmap9
database9
rust9
msgpack9
python9
structured-logging9
lua9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
karlovnv/progaudi.tarantool
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
.net connector for Tarantool NoSql database.
Contributions:6 pushes in 3 years 5 months
dotnetnosqlconnectornosql-databasecsharp
karlovnv/tnt-meetup
Apr 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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