Summary
Nikita Bayev is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years building and scaling web and mobile products in fintech, currently heading Front-end & Mobile at Bereke Bank and leading a 100+ engineer cross-platform division. He combines org design, delivery systems, and hands-on technical governance to keep releases fast and predictable while co-owning API contracts, observability, and incident hygiene at bank scale. As product manager of the Özen design system he drove cross-platform consistency across core banking journeys, and he codified developer experience through CI/CD conventions, grading, and interview playbooks. Nikita is an early adopter of AI in regulated environments, piloting RAG assistants, code-review agents, and agent-based coding workflows embedded in the SDLC. Active in Kazakhstan’s tech scene as AlmatyJS and Frontend KZ organizer, he blends community-building with pragmatic engineering leadership and the mantra that code is cheap but software quality, architecture, and leadership aren’t.
12 years of coding experience