Nikita Koselev is an AI Evangelist and Lead Software Development Engineer at Mastercard with a decade of software experience and a strong background in information technology from TalTech. He combines hands-on coding and deep analysis with developer-relations skills, advocating practical AI applications and open source research to improve business workflows. At Mastercard he grew an internal AI community from 250 to over 3,400 members in under eight months and now proactively surfaces ways colleagues can use AI to work smarter. Comfortable bridging technical execution and strategic evangelism, he’s equally at home shipping code, teaching ChatGPT best practices across roles, and exploring open-source solutions for real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Apprenticeship Business Transformation Fellowship, Apprenticeship Business Transformation Fellowship at Multiverse
Master's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
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