Nikolay Sotskiy
SwiftDecor Founder
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Sotskiy is a seasoned technology entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and leading product-focused engineering teams from MVP to first public releases. As founder of SwiftDecor and InstaDev in St. Petersburg, he combines fast, pragmatic mobile and web delivery with strong UI/UX and visual brand sensibilities, and currently leverages AI to personalize home interior consultations. His background spans CTO/CIO roles in high-growth consumer and education platforms, running production services at hundreds of thousands of daily users and implementing cloud and virtualization strategies. Comfortable both in hands-on development and in program-level delivery, he has repeatedly scaled engineering and PMO functions across startups and larger orgs. Trained in applied mathematics, he brings a data-driven approach to product experiments and a knack for laying foundations that make future iterations easier and faster. An uncommon strength is blending infrastructure and product instincts—so design choices are informed by operational realities as well as user experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Magister, Applied Mathematics, Magister, Applied Mathematics at Saint Petersburg State UniversityMagister, Applied Mathematics, Magister, Applied Mathematics at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic UniversitySaint Petersburg Lyceum 239
English, Russian
Github Skills (56)
swift8
computer-vision8
dlib8
ios8
objective-c8
machine-learning7
xcode7
deep-learning7
python7
macos7
cocoapods6
api6
data-analysis5
carthage5
amazon-web-services5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
InstaDev/IDDaDataSuggestions
Oct 2014 - Aug 2018
Loads suggestions via dadata.ru API.
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
apisuggestionsdadatapython-3python3
InstaDev/collection-view-layouts
Apr 2019 - May 2022
A library that implements custom flow layouts for iOS apps
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
swiftioslayouts
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