Nick Kazakov
Senior Product Manager at Dropbox
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNick Kazakov is a Senior Product Manager in Denver with 8+ years of experience driving product strategy and shipping revenue-generating solutions across SaaS and oil & gas domains. He has a track record of leading cross-functional teams to launch high-impact products—from a Global Field Planner that generated $2.25M+ in year-one revenue to a Gen AI Assist that produced $720K in three months. At Design Pickle he architected operational systems (a leave-management tool saving $325K/year) and integrations that lifted transactions and reduced churn, and he now brings that scale-up experience to Dropbox. Originally trained as a petroleum engineer (BS and MS from Colorado School of Mines), he pairs deep analytical rigor with hands-on engineering, having built APIs and integrated large image asset catalogs. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical tradeoffs into clear roadmaps and measurable business outcomes. He combines domain breadth—from reservoir simulation to payments and annotation platforms—with a knack for turning technical work into immediate commercial impact.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S Petroleum Engineering (Stimulation and Fracturing), M.S Petroleum Engineering (Stimulation and Fracturing) at Colorado School of Mines
English, Russian
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Github Skills (20)
eventbrite9
html8
ruby7
rails7
mvc7
openseadragon6
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
javascript4
iiif4
react4
database4
slam4
pickle3
image-annotation-tool3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nikita-kazakov/events-hub-v2
Jul 2019 - Apr 2022
Events app (similar to meetup / eventbrite) in Ruby on Rails. Sign up, favorite and more.
Contributions:43 commits, 19 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 9 months
eventbriteruby-on-rails
nikita-kazakov/nikita-kazakov.github.io
Jul 2020 - Dec 2024
Nikita's blog site
Contributions:199 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
gatsbyblog-site
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