Nikita Ivanov
Founder & CEO, Investor at Grid Dynamics
San Ramon, California, United States
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Top SchoolNikita Ivanov is a founder, CEO and AI executive with over 25 years of global experience building high-performance distributed systems, in-memory databases, and GenAI products. He founded Apache Ignite and Apache NLPCraft, led GridGain to acquisition, and now runs Humatron AI to create hireable AI workers that integrate into enterprise workflows. A product-centric leader and frequent international speaker, he blends hands-on compiler and language design expertise (Java/Scala roots) with strategic advising to boards on AI-driven digital transformation. His work spans deterministic NLP, reinforcement learning and agentic AI, and he remains an active open-source contributor and Forbes Technology Council member. An understated strength is his track record of turning deep systems research into commercially successful platforms that scale across enterprises and national initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Electro Mechanics, M.S., Electro Mechanics at Baltic State Technical University, Saint PetersburgMachine Learning, CS229, Machine Learning, CS229 at Stanford University
Russian, English
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Github Skills (19)
jline9
java9
scala9
ignite9
cli8
apache-ignite8
console8
game-engine8
natural-language-processing7
api7
nlp7
database5
apache5
network-server4
iot4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nivanov/ignite
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Mirror of Apache Ignite
Contributions:133 pushes in 2 months
apache-igniteignite
nivanov/langchain-js-rerank
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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