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Nikolay Skorikov

AI Product & Infrastructure Engineer

Moscow · remote, hybrid or on-site

Summary

AI product and infrastructure engineer. Over three years of operating production services: a Telegram bot for 4,700+ MPGU students, telephony for a 40-agent call center, an online store with a custom admin and AI automation, and a voice AI agent for outbound sales. Full cycle — architecture and integrations, deployment, monitoring and support.

Experience

Freelance & own products — V2Horizon

2026 — now

  • Development of VoiceManager — a voice AI agent for outbound sales with a client dashboard
  • The GadgetPick online store from scratch: storefront, admin panel, payments, Bitrix24, AI automation
  • AI pipelines on n8n and infrastructure operations for the projects

Technician — MPGU · Center for Strategic Work with Applicants

Jan 2025 — May 2026

  • Operation of the production Telegram bot @mpgu_imo_bot for 4,700+ students: deployment, on-call, monitoring, AI integrations via OpenRouter
  • Deployment and maintenance of institute services: Frappe LMS, Jitsi, Nextcloud, monitoring with Grafana + Prometheus
  • Mentoring 10+ first-year CS students: task specs, code review, onboarding

Founding Engineer — E-commerce startup (24connect-hub.ru) · team of 3

Apr — Nov 2025

  • Sole ownership of the technical side: servers, telephony, CRM integrations, landing pages
  • Asterisk/FreePBX from scratch for a ~40-agent call center: SIP trunk, IVR, recording, analytics
  • Launch of 50 product landing pages with leads routed into LeadVertex CRM
  • A load balancer over 2 backend nodes and Whisper call transcription with request classification

Technical support — MPGU · Distance Learning Development Center

Apr — Oct 2024

  • Deployment and maintenance of an online school on Frappe LMS: Docker Compose, MariaDB, Nginx, backups
  • Incident handling: MariaDB auth conflicts, LVM volume expansion, Nginx upload permissions
  • Design and front-end of course pages and landing templates

Projects

  • VoiceManager — Russian-speaking voice AI agent for outbound sales: LiveKit, Yandex SpeechKit, pluggable LLM adapter (Gemini / YandexGPT / OpenRouter), ElevenLabs; client dashboard with call logs, CRM-ready data, 2FA and an AI assistant.
  • GadgetPick · gadgetpick.ru — Online store from scratch: React storefront, MedusaJS backend, online payments, Bitrix24, SMS sign-up; admin with analytics and a profit calculator; AI-generated images, descriptions and SEO.
  • Schedule bot · @mpgu_imo_bot — Telegram bot and Mini App with schedules and an AI assistant for 4,700+ MPGU students: NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, OpenRouter; deployment, on-call, monitoring.
  • Diagnostic Assistant — Personal diagnostic assistant on a verified medical history: differential diagnosis, missing data, examination plan; provenance down to the scan, mandatory physician-approval flag enforced by the template.
  • n8n pipelines — Production pipelines on self-hosted n8n: MAX → Telegram mirroring with an AI filter; a self-running music YouTube channel (Suno, GPT Image, ffmpeg, YouTube API); AI content for social media and catalogs.
  • Homelab — Proxmox VE homelab: 10 LXC + 2 VMs (Frappe LMS, k3s) behind NPMplus; Prometheus + Grafana, Technitium split DNS, automated backups and ZFS snapshots, Telegram alerts; ~99% uptime over 12+ months.
  • Call center — E-commerce startup tech: Asterisk/FreePBX for ~40 agents, 50 landing pages feeding LeadVertex CRM, a 2-node load balancer, Whisper call transcription.

Skills

AI & voice:
OpenRouter, Gemini, YandexGPT, DeepSeek, Claude Code, LiveKit, Yandex SpeechKit, ElevenLabs, Whisper, Silero VAD
Backend & web:
Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, NestJS, React, MedusaJS, Astro, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, RabbitMQ
Infrastructure:
Linux, Docker, Docker Compose, Proxmox VE, LXC, k3s, Nginx, Caddy, NPMplus, Traefik, Cloudflare
Automation & integrations:
n8n, Telegram Bot API, Telegram Mini Apps, Bitrix24, LeadVertex, Green-API, YouTube API
Observability:
Prometheus, Grafana, node_exporter, pve-exporter, Telegram alerts
Networking & telephony:
DNS, Technitium DNS, TLS / Let’s Encrypt, IPv6, Xray-core, Asterisk, FreePBX, SIP
Cloud:
Yandex Cloud, Selectel, Timeweb Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Hostinger, DigitalOcean
Design:
Figma, Photoshop, Premiere Pro

Education

HSE University — Master’s programme in LegalTech

2026 — 2028

Dual degree: Law (40.04.01) and Applied Mathematics & Computer Science (01.04.02). Legal process automation, data analysis, machine-readable law.

Moscow Pedagogical State University — Bachelor’s in Information Systems & Technology

2022 — 2026

Game design & VR track. Thesis: “An adaptive learning platform powered by AI” — a Telegram bot with LLM routing via OpenRouter and PostgreSQL, piloted with 4,700+ users.

Additional

  • Russian — native
  • English — B1 (intermediate): docs and written communication
  • Work format: remote, hybrid or on-site; freelance projects or full-time.
  • The HSE master’s programme is online in the evenings — compatible with full-time work.