nikita podelenko
orange county, california
today
founding forward deploy engineer at livekit.
building production voice ai with enterprises, livekit agents, and livekit cloud.
building
▶ skipcalls (2024–present), founder — ai voice receptionists for small businesses
co-founded with kristina (product lead). i'm the solo engineer.
building scalable 24/7 phone agents for smbs. bootstrapped to 470+ active subscriptions and $8k+ mrr with a two-person founding team.
stack: typescript, python, nest.js, react native, livekit, postgresql, redis. deployed on railway.
▶ cmd-c (2024), solo founder — ai text correction for macos
native macos app for real-time text correction with a triple-copy shortcut.
sends highlighted text to openai/anthropic, shows original vs corrected with explanations.
works universally across all apps. weekly improvement reports to track progress.
stack: swift, swiftui, nest.js, openai api, anthropic api.
▶ gptask (2023), co-founder — telegram chatbot with 60k+ users
gpt-4 powered chatbot that can answer any question inside telegram.
features: voice message recognition, group chat support, image generation from descriptions.
secure card payments without phone verification. migrated from python poc to typescript.
stack: typescript, node.js, gcp, telegram api, gpt-4.
past
arro, staff fullstack engineer
onmoon, founding engineer — 8 years, esports/fintech
igambling dev, founding engineer
mdk, founding engineer
about
founding forward deploy engineer at livekit with 13+ years of experience.
technical co-founder of skipcalls. green card holder. built products serving 10m+ users.
australian shepherd dad. 100+ california trails hiked.
stack
github
4,000+ contributions/year. 87 public repos.
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