Nick Ustinov
CEO, CTO at Lokalise
Portugal
Summary
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RockstarNick Ustinov is a seasoned technology executive and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience leading product and engineering teams, currently serving as CEO and CTO of Lokalise. He combines deep expertise in telecommunications and high-load systems—SIP/VoIP, Asterisk/Kamailio, clustering, and server architecture—with full-stack development skills in PHP, Node.js, MySQL/Postgres, and NoSQL stores. Nick has repeatedly built and scaled telco and SaaS ventures from the ground up, blending business analytics, financial planning, and process modeling with pragmatic technical design. His background spans founding and executive roles across startups and telecoms, giving him a rare mix of operator-level infrastructure knowledge and product-led growth instincts. Based in Portugal, he is comfortable steering both strategic company direction and low-level architecture decisions, often bridging gaps between ops, dev, and commercial teams. An interesting facet of his profile is the persistent focus on communications platforms and SMS/telephony integrations, which informs how he approaches scalability and reliability across products.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English, Latvian, Russian
Github Skills (48)
lokalise10
scratchpad10
homekit10
php10
sdk10
php-library10
nodejs-client10
composer10
cli10
appstoreconnect9
testflight9
telegram-bot9
docker-container9
api9
tvos9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lokalise/lokalise-cli
Jun 2017 - Sep 2019
Lokalise command-line tool.
Contributions:1 PR, 45 pushes, 5 comments in 2 years 3 months
command-line-toollokalise
lokalise/php-lokalise-api
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Lokalise API v2 PHP library.
Contributions:25 commits, 20 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year
lokalisephp-librarylokalise-apicomposerphp
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