Nikolay Ostrovsky
Startup Team Lead. I like everything minimal and as simple as possible.
Grew from Web and Graphics through User Experience and
Interfaces, Backend and Frontend programming to Team Lead and CTO.
Contributed to projects for major brands.
Fullstack / DesignOp / Team lead
More than two decades of development and teamwork growing businesses from scratch while leading remote and in-house teams.
- Am: Founder / CTO / Team Lead
- Make: Full Stack Web Apps / Ruby / TypeScript
- And: Art Director / Designer
- Love: User-facing stuff / UI / UX / Prototypes
- Like: UI Components / Data Visualization
- Did: Successful launches of large projects
I art direct, design, and love frontend. Love Rails and React affinity. Contribute to open source.
- Backend with Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Grape, Sequel, Sidekiq
- Data exchange with Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, REST, RabbitMQ, GraphQL
- Frontend with React, Vue, Redux, Saga, Router, Apollo, PWA, WebRTC
- Continuous Integration with Circle, Travis, Jenkins, Concourse, Cirrus
- Testing with Jest, Enzyme, RSpec, Cypress, Capybara, Cucumber
A platform that provides proof of work for organizations
- Technologies: Rails, Sidekiq, Vue, Postgres
Team Lead at Sber eApteka, Russia. Jul 2021— Mar 2022
Built a compliant scalable Cloud POS/Warehouse for the biggest Pharma e-commerce retailer in Russia. The project was put on hold after things turned sour.
- Assembled a team of remote developers
- Built a working Pharmacy chain / POS / Warehouse
- Demo with Russian subtitles: Pharmacy chain, SSO/2FA, Scanner/Receipt Printer Integration, Invoices, POS, Pharmaceutical Warehouse
CTO at Learn21, Thailand. Jan 2017 — Nov 2019, Present
Co-founded Learn21, an educational startup with a gamified approach to learning English.
- Led a team of developers, teachers, graphics, video, and audio producers
- Delivered a distributed education platform in 11 schools in 3 Thai provinces
- Developed a multi-platform app with the multimedia content delivery system
- Made it easy for a non-computer literate team of teachers to create lessons
- Branched into online learning for Summer English Camp
- Presented at EDUCA Expo in Bangkok
- Personally taught classes in Thai Schools
- Lesson modules / Actual Lessons / Youtube Channel
Full Stack Developer at Flash Chat, USA. Nov 2020 — Jul 2021, Present
Mobile Progressive Tinder-like Web Application aimed at adult entertainment.
- Developed multiple PWA applications across different adult domains
- Lead small teams of handful developers for quick MVP iterations
- Implemented Video and Phone Calling with Quicklbox as backend
- Technologies: Typescript / React / Express / PWA / WebRTC + Quick/ Clickhouse / Docker
Full Stack Developer at Heartland Retail, USA. Jan 2015 — Dec 2018
Cloud POS and Retail Management System with extensive reporting functionality.
- Implemented store analytics dashboard to allow store staff to compare key metrics over periods
- Extended the reporting system with flexible UI to help visualize sales data
- Technologies: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq.
Team Lead / Full Stack Developer at 7Pikes, Russia. Jan 2011— Dec 2015
Distributed ERP and POS system powered 1300+ pharmacies across Russia.
- Coordinated the deployment and support of POS
- Worked on POS and other parts of the system to improve onboarding and day-to-day operations.
- Developed various side projects like system Dashboard, Price list parser, and Motivation portal
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Redis, Sidekiq, MySQL, Chef, Elasticsearch
Co-Founder / Business / Developer of Phuket Project, Thailand Sep 2009 — Sep 2015
Created a real-estate ad board that transformed into one of the leading real estate agencies in Phuket, Thailand.
- Developed and designed the core functionality
- Lead a small team of developers to create a Customer- and Booking Management system to get the agency off the ground
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails
Co-Founder / Designer / Developer at Jaconda IM, Jul 2010 — May 2012
As a team of two, we’ve launched a chat platform for remote companies.
- Designed interfaces for a streamlined group chat experience.
- Supported users around the world.
- Technologies: Ruby, Rails, MySQL, EventMachine for XMPP integration
Projects
- https://bestthaifruits.com — Partner in the production and import of frozen Thai fruits. We brought the actual fruits from Thailand to Russian stores. Made branding and package design.
- https://heartlandretail.us — Designer/Developer. Point of Sale software. Full-stack developer and designer Ruby, ReactJS. Made sales dashboards and complex reporting for sales analytics.
- https://photo.gallery — Co-Founder. Professional Photography Gallery and a Static Website Generator. A two-people team where each of us was a developer, a designer, and provided user support.
- https://piluli.ru — Designer/Developer. Started with our own pharmacy later acquired by one of the leading Russian retailers X5.
- https://mindbox.ru — As an Art Director lead a team that won over long-term clients like L’Oreal, SunInBev, JTI, and BAT. Oversaw the development of advertising campaigns.
- https://zr.ru — Team Lead/Developer/Designer for “Behind the Wheel”, the Leading Russian Magazine devoted to cars.
- https://gipsyteam.ru — Team Lead/Developer/Designer for the Leading Russian Poker site. Helped the team that won the World Series of Poker to launch their own Poker School and Community.
- https://jaconda.im — Co-Founder. Business chat startup that failed to get traction before got killed by HipChat and then finally Slack and became masterbot.
- https://masterbot.rocks — Co-Founder. The first chatbot for Telegram. We started to work with Telegram. Shortly after our release, they opened the API for everybody which started the chatbot craze.
- https://phuketbuyhouse.com — Co-founder. We made AirBNB before they existed. Converted to a full-blown Real-estate agency.
- https://allhomesphuket.com — Founder of another own Real-estate agency. From scratch.
- https://headstartphuket.com — Team Lead/Design/Development. Made everything. From branding to the website with a built-in content builder and a publishing system for the school gazette.