A founder reading
the literature directly.

I'm Nikita. Independent researcher and serial product founder, based in Almaty.

Ten years of shipping software and running tech and content businesses. I started my first web-development company at fifteen, building landing pages and selling contextual advertising to local clients in Kazakhstan. That ran for three years and taught me the only thing that matters: ship something people pay for, then iterate.

After two years studying psychology at St. Petersburg State University, I left to build full-time. The decade since spans web platforms, digital advertising, creative production, blockchain infrastructure, a YouTube and social content network whose largest channel passed fourteen million subscribers, an in-house SaaS platform still in daily use by 60+ producers, and an academy teaching the media business.

What I'm doing now.

In April 2026 I shipped NeuroBridge — an open-source analysis platform for brain-organoid multi-electrode array recordings. Nine peer-reviewed methods, 137 API endpoints, ~12,000 lines of Python, MIT-licensed. Built solo in fourteen days. Validated end-to-end on FinalSpark's public fs437 dataset: 2.6M spikes, 32 channels, 118 hours of recording across four organoids. Methods preprint forthcoming on arXiv.

I'm not a domain-expert researcher. I'm a founder who reads the peer-reviewed literature directly and ships what the field needs. Curating method matters more than inventing it. The contribution is in the citation chain, the honest labels, and the auditable code — not in claiming a discovery I didn't make.

Alongside NeuroBridge, I produce media projects for YouTube studios as a strategist. I run the algorithm playbook we built operating a 14M+ subscriber network — format engineering, hooks, paid acquisition, operating cadence — inside their teams.

How I work.

Comfortable at the intersection of product, infrastructure, and scientific-method curation. I'm not a hands-on deep-code engineer today — I direct builds and make the critical design decisions, with AI-assisted engineering carrying the line-by-line weight.

Architect-familiar with Python (NumPy, SciPy, FastAPI) and TypeScript (Next.js 16, React 19, D3.js); reading-level Python for scientific computing; long-running HTML/CSS/JS foundations from a decade of web work. Hands-on with deployment — Vercel, VPS with Caddy and PM2, PyPI packaging, DNS, GitHub Actions.

Fourteen days from blank repo to a methods-grade tool isn't a stunt — it's what's possible when a generalist founder lets the model handle scaffolding while they focus on what to build and why. The contribution is in the design choices, not the keystrokes.

A timeline.

1. 2026
   NeuroBridge launches. Open-source organoid MEA analysis. Shipped 23 April. arXiv preprint forthcoming.
2. 2024
   TubeForge Academy. Two-month cohort program on media business and paid advertising for YouTube Shorts creators. First paid cohort opens September 2026.
3. 2023
   Lucky Team. In-house SaaS platform for creator operations across the network — 91 endpoints, ~72,000 lines of code, in daily use by 60+ producers and still operating.
4. 2021
   Blockchain infrastructure. Full-stack tooling and dashboards for crypto-adjacent startups. Two-year run; transitioned out before pivoting to scientific tooling.
5. 2020
   Content production network. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram. Largest channel reaches 14M+ subscribers in entertainment verticals.
6. 2019
   SPbGU, Faculty of Psychology. Two years completed; left to focus full-time on building products.
7. 2016
   First company. Web development and digital advertising in Kazakhstan. Founded at fifteen, ran through age eighteen.

Where I'm useful.

Most weeks I'm split between two contexts. Media production — producer and strategist for YouTube studios, running the algorithm playbook from a 14M+ subscriber network. Biocomputing — academic and industry labs working on MEA, organoid, cell-culture, or related electrophysiology data; particularly around dataset exchanges, method validation, and joint methodological work.