Nikita Pestrov
AI And Data Platform Lead
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNikita Pestrov is an AI and data platform leader with 13 years of experience building cloud-native, scalable data products and pipelines for clients including Mastercard, the World Bank, and PwC. Based in Austin, he specializes in bringing AI/ML and voice-enabled capabilities to frontline workers, translating research-grade methods into production SaaS and location-intelligence products. He has led teams that manage tens of terabytes on GCP using orchestration tools like Dagster and dbt, and co-developed the Inclusive Growth Score for Mastercard. Nikita combines academic rigor—master’s work at Skoltech and research collaborations with MIT Media Lab and urban-policy consortia—with hands-on startup experience as a former iOS lead and co-founder. A frequent mentor, lecturer, and hackathon juror, he bridges policy, industry and education to operationalize fair and impactful data use. Less obvious: he often pairs ethnographic methods with big-data analytics to surface neighborhood-scale insights that guide product and policy decisions.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Science and Technology, Master's Degree, Information Science and Technology at Skolkovo Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor's degree, Applied Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Physics and Mathematics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Chinese, Russian
Stackoverflow
5,936reputation
457kreached
182answers
25questions
iphone
top-5%
ios
top-5%
objective-c
top-5%
Github Skills (119)
operation10
pipeline10
java10
data-collection10
maps9
mapbox-gl9
postgresql9
tiles9
python9
data-warehouse9
geojson9
databases9
data-pipeline9
duckdb9
snowflake9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pestrov/4sqHealthMine
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
pestrov/ultrasound-mosaicing
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes in 2 months
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