Summary
Sophia Nikolaeva is a CTO and product designer with a decade of experience blending game-engine development, frontend engineering, and UX for web and mobile. She built a JavaScript game engine that became her company’s product backbone and scaled a game’s monthly revenue from $200 to $10,000, demonstrating both technical depth and product sensibility. Her background includes designing responsive interfaces and front-end React work for major Russian banks and leading design for an auction platform, showing versatility across industries. Comfortable guiding development teams, she pairs hands-on coding with visual craft—creating icons, illustrations, and polished interaction flows. Based in Saint Petersburg, she actively maintains a public portfolio and GitHub, reflecting a continuous learning mindset and a rare combination of systems-level engineering and refined visual design.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems and Technologies, Computer Systems and Technologies at Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
Английский, Русский