Mykola Nesov

Mykola Nesov.

Engineering teams that ship with AI — built on process, not heroics.

Lead Software Engineer · Mayven Studios · Paris

Twelve years shipping software with international teams. Eight of them leading engineering at Mayven Studios — Senior in 2018, Lead since 2020.

Most weeks my job isn't code. It's the review standards, release procedures, decision docs, and automations that keep a team fast.

How I help

Install the guardrails. Code-review standards, release procedures, and the SOPs written down so the next engineer doesn't have to ask. CI/CD hardening and the automations that make it stick.

Ship without surprises. Pre-launch risk reviews, rollback playbooks, production monitoring — for teams that have outgrown "deploy and hope".

Fold AI into the team, not the demo. Where LLM tooling actually saves hours on real client work, where it doesn't, and how to measure the difference.

Speak to the client for the team. Translate engineering trade-offs into decisions a founder or product owner can actually make.

Experience

Mayven Studios· Paris · Remote

Dec 2018 – Present

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2020 – Present
  • Technical decision-making and formalising development procedures.
  • Production launch control — identifying and mitigating risk.
  • Code review and maintaining engineering best practices.
  • Coordinating and motivating the team.
  • Client, management, and cross-department communication.

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2018 – Oct 2020
  • Application architecture; planning, developing, and scaling projects.
  • Refactoring legacy code toward Clean Architecture.
  • Implementing Domain-Driven Design — from ubiquitous language through to the application itself.
  • REST API development for SPA frontends.
  • Third-party integrations: Stripe, Authorize.Net, Iterable, ShipStation, NetSuite.

Upwork· Remote

2007 – 2022

Premium Software Developer

Apr 2017 – Feb 2022
  • Premium Pool Developer — passed the coding challenge into Upwork's Premium Pool.
  • 5-star success score since 2012; 7,000+ hours logged.

Top-Rated Developer

Apr 2007 – Apr 2017
  • Top-Rated Upwork Developer.
  • 20+ shipped international products.

Radiate Digital· Minneapolis, MN

Jan 2015 – Oct 2019

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2017 – Oct 2019
  • Application architecture across multiple products.
  • Grew the team by introducing new technologies.
  • Planning, developing, and scaling projects.

Software Engineer

Jan 2015 – Apr 2017
  • Laravel and WordPress development.

Joy Telecom· London, UK

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

Senior PHP Developer

  • Built a responsive web application on top of A2Billing — a complete VoIP solution for residential, business, and wholesale voice.
  • Payment integrations: PayPal, 2Checkout, Ukash.
  • Geo-location services; WordPress plugins and themes.

Education

National Technical University of Ukraine — Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

2017 – 2019

M.Sc., Computer Science

Thesis: Human Emotional State Monitoring based on Facial Expression Recognition algorithms.

Lomonosov Moscow State University

2008 – 2012

B.A., Business / Managerial Economics

Certifications

Laravel Certified Developer

2018

Zend Certified PHP Engineer

2016

Honors

Premium Pool Upwork Developer

Languages

Ukrainian

Native

English

Professional working proficiency

French

Elementary

Volunteer

Escape Crimea

since 2014

Founder & Developer

Human rights advocacy platform.

Viegraph

Software Engineer

Vital-signs AI recognition software.