nikita podelenko

founder & engineer · orange county, california

i build products end to end and sell them myself. 15+ years of shipping, the last ones in voice ai.

building

skipcalls (2025–now), founder — ai receptionist for small businesses

answers the phone for plumbers, salons and law firms: books jobs, transfers emergencies, blocks spam.

600+ paying businesses, bootstrapped. co-founded with kristina (product); i'm the only engineer.

python voice agents on livekit, nestjs api, two react apps, react native app on both stores, telephony, infra, on-call.

cmd-c (2024) — fix any text on macos with a triple copy

native swift app, sends the selection to an llm and shows the diff with explanations.

gptask (2023), co-founder — telegram assistant, 60k+ users

voice messages, group chats, image generation, card payments.

founding forward deployed engineer at livekit.

i take enterprise voice agents from prototype to production on livekit agents and cloud, and feed what breaks back into the sdks.

zero to paying customers — idea, product, launch, pricing, support, sales. skipcalls went from nothing to 600+ paying businesses without funding.

whole stack, solo — backend, web, mobile apps on both stores, infra, on-call. architecture, deploys and incidents are mine.

voice ai — realtime agents over webrtc and sip that answer real phone calls, book jobs and transfer emergencies.

arro (2023–2025), staff fullstack engineer — llm assistant inside banking flows, nestjs platform migration

onmoon (2015–2023), founding engineer — high-load backends for 10m+ users, payments platform with 1.5m+ transactions

mdk (2014–2015), founding engineer — backend of the first cs:go skins jackpot site

python · typescript · livekit · webrtc · sip · nestjs · react · react native · postgres · redis · aws · gcp

4,000+ contributions a year.

15 minutes about voice ai, a project, or just hi.