I find where a business loses money and time - and close it with a working product.
25 years in business, 10+ years in IT, 5+ years operations director at an international fintech - top 5 in the world in its niche. I engage as a product owner with engineering execution: processes, architecture, unit economics - personally. I solve the stated pains and the blind spots the team doesn't see from inside.
commits nearly every day · commercial repositories are private
verify on GitHub ↗I take tasks from any part of the IT plane.
Not focused on one product type. I come in from whichever side needs one person with real accountability for outcomes: architecture, product, engineering, unit economics, releases - personally.
Three formats of work.
It doesn't have to be «let's build a product» from day one. You can start small and safe - with a diagnostic where I find where money and time leak. What comes next follows the result.
Ops diagnostics
I go through processes, money and tools end to end: where time leaks, where money gets stuck, what managers do by hand for nothing. Output - a map of the gaps and blind spots, a fix plan prioritised by money, and 2-3 quick wins.
Product turnkey
I engage as a product owner with engineering execution - personally. Internal ops systems, Telegram apps, AI products, CRM / ERP / billing integrations. From architecture to release and handover.
Fractional COO / CTO
Long-term ownership of product and process: hiring, unit economics, release cycles, operational KPIs. For companies that need a technical and operational leader without a staff seat.
The industry is context. The gaps are the same.
What I usually find when I go through operations end to end. Each item is from a real project, not a hypothesis.
The portfolio in numbers.
Specifics from the public work — what's behind the case headlines.
Work from the portfolio.
Ten out of thirty-plus. I show what can be shown: internal client systems, products under NDA and active-development work stay off the page. If your task rhymes with one of these - I'll share more, without abbreviations, on a call.
Putting operations in order
Live
Market data terminal in Web and Telegram
Two full-fledged products under one brand for a million-user audience. One login - one set of data: watchlist, portfolio and chart drawings live in the desktop terminal and in the Telegram app alike.
NDA Ops platform for an international fintech
Support closes 80-90% of manager-level operations itself - in a safe, scoped surface. The client gets an answer in minutes; the team lead and the head get their time back for growth instead of routine.
Command centre for marketplaces
The owner stops guessing whether the manager does the work - and stops living in the cabinet: a daily checklist, a money report, bad reviews into the chat, stock and ads with a forecast instead of after the fact.
NDA AI customer intelligence for a B2B team
The salesperson joins the call knowing the company, the decision maker and their objections - having already rehearsed the conversation with their AI twin. The base is verified: not a single person without a checked source.
NDA Voice assistant for sales & install
Reps don't fill cards by hand - they dictate on the go, and the deal lands in the pipeline by itself. Installers run sites in Telegram with no CRM seat. The director opens Telegram in the morning and sees the day at a glance.
Building products from scratch
Live
A free vibe-coding school for kids
A free non-commercial project: my own product, taken from method to production. The child doesn't watch videos, the child builds - and ends up with a live link they can send to a friend.
Open school.nikam.dev →
Live
Astrolab - career-guidance platform
A free, non-commercial social project - my own product, taken from idea to production: a method-based test, profession matching with no AI invention, and an honest answer to 'how do I get in'. A teen chooses; an adult switches.
Open astrolab.nikam.dev →
Live
Trainer ↔ client platform
A trainer runs dozens of clients in one product instead of a few. Workouts, nutrition, protocols with a grocery basket, booking, voice chat, payment - no lost threads, no Excel.
Open anvil.nikam.dev →
Live
AI product from zero to production
Full cycle by one person: business model, pricing, voice, payments, one-tap cancellation. No project management on the client side.
Open konsilion.nikam.dev →
NDA Doctor ↔ patient platform
The doctor hands out a protocol, the patient lives it without paperwork or forgetting. Telegram checklists, doctor-ready reports, lab history. The doctor gets a measurable picture per patient - before the visit, not from storytelling at it.
I run a project as if it were my own business.
The main difference from a typical dev team: I'm not «an executor of your spec». A quarter-century in business and an operations-director role at an international fintech (top 5 in the world in its niche) give a rare combo - I understand product architecture, unit economics and operational KPIs at the same time.
instead of an agency with five roles.
No account-manager layer
In an agency you talk to a manager, who talks to a tech lead, who talks to developers. With me you talk to me - I'm the one making the call. No «let me check with the team and get back Tuesday».
I see the blind spots - a cross-market eye
You have pains, but you also have blind spots. I've been through sales, restaurants, manufacturing, marketplaces, fintech - and I see analogies nobody inside a single industry notices. I find where money and time leak, and propose what the internal team can't see.
I think like a shareholder, not a contractor
I run the project through unit economics, legal, ops, hiring. If I see the task in this shape will kill your unit math or hit a regulator wall - I'll say it up front, not at the release stage.
25 years in business, 5+ as operations director
As a hired exec and as an owner. Five years as operations director at an international fintech - top 5 in the world in its niche, a 50+ team. I know first-hand which tools actually unload an executive - because I use them every day myself.
A narrow circle of trusted partners
Not an agency, not outsourcing. I pull in specialists per task: design, ML / data, infrastructure, marketing. Targeted matching per project, no overhead.
What the work looks like.
No «send a spec, we'll come back with an estimate». A transparent path from the first message to a product in production.
30-minute call
We discuss the task. I tell you honestly whether it's mine and where the first win is. If it isn't mine, I'll say so.
Diagnostics
I go through the processes end to end. Output - a map of pains and blind spots with numbers, not a «general impression».
Plan
Priorities by money, unit economics, key forks agreed. After that, it's on me.
Releases in waves
Every 2-4 weeks something works in production and is measured. No «you'll see it all at the end».
Handover
Documentation, handover, support as agreed. The product stays manageable without me.
What I'm open to right now.
Four situations where I'm the right person. If your case isn't on the list but the task is IT-shaped and not an agency contract, write. Experience from adjacent markets usually transfers directly.
Operations head or owner whose ops lives in the gaps between CRM, ERP, and billing
Managers ping engineering multiple times a day, finance sees totals a month late, failed charges pile up unnoticed. I build an internal admin hub where support, finance, and sales live. Support closes 80-90% of manager-level operations itself, no escalation needed.
Marketplace seller or B2B team losing signals inside WB, Ozon, or amoCRM
The team spends half the day checking dashboards and misses what actually drives revenue. I build a product where signals come to the team - in Telegram, with a one-tap action ready. Fits sales teams, marketplace sellers, dispatch desks at service companies.
Expert running individual client work: doctor, trainer, nutritionist, therapist, coach
You hand the client a protocol, a program, or a plan - and the client forgets it, loses it, doesn't do it between visits. I build a platform where the client sees «what to do now», ticks off completion, logs how they feel. The expert gets structured reports instead of storytelling. Client loyalty goes up, the expert gets a measurable picture per client.
Founder at pre-product or MVP, without a CTO
You have funding and a hypothesis, no product yet. I come in as a product owner with engineering execution; if the team has no technical leader yet, I also take a fractional CTO or co-founder mode. I own architecture, engineering, hiring, and unit economics - including AI-first products where the cost of each request has to be priced from day one.
Asked often in the first message.
Short answers to common questions. More detail - on a 30-minute Telegram call.
How deep is your experience, and what have you already built?
What does it cost and what's the engagement model?
How long from start to first release?
How many projects do you take in parallel?
Will you sign an NDA before the first call?
Do you build alone or with a team?
Do you take a CTO or co-founder role at a startup?
Which industries are closest?
Can you build a Telegram app on top of an existing web product?
What payment providers do you cover?
Any modern stack.
Not tied to one ecosystem. I pick the stack for the task, the budget and the client's team - not for my own convenience. Below are the categories I work with in production.
Backend & databases
Python, Node, PHP, Go - chosen by load and team. Any database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, Mongo), caches, queues, workers. Microservices or monolith - by situation.
Frontend & mobile
Any modern framework - Svelte, React, Vue, Next, Astro. Mobile - native iOS / Android, Flutter, React Native. Telegram and VK Mini Apps - particular strength.
AI & data
Any LLM through a unified gateway - Claude, GPT, Gemini, local. RAG, embeddings, voice (Whisper / TTS), AI agents. I cost-model every request in advance - not «burn tokens».
Payments & billing
All major providers - Stripe, PayPal, Telegram Stars, regional acquirers per market. Stable billing, subscriptions, disputes, partner payouts.
Integrations
CRM - amoCRM, Bitrix24, HubSpot, Salesforce. Messengers - Telegram, WhatsApp, VK. Analytics - GA4, Mixpanel, Amplitude. ERP and custom APIs from any vendor.
Infrastructure & i18n
Deploy on any infrastructure - yours or ours. Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, backups. Localisation with no limit on the number of languages, RTL, any currencies and formats.
Tell me the task.
The rest is on me.
Startup, SMB, mid-market, enterprise - equally calm with pre-product and 50+ engineer legacy. If a task isn't mine - I'll say so honestly.