Nikolay Golov

Nikolay got his M.S. degree in applied mathematics and cybernetics from Moscow State University, Russia. Afterwards, he had 15 years of experience building data platforms for various startups and enterprises. From 2013 until 2019, he headed the Data Platform of Avito, Craigslist of Russia, which grew to a multi-billion-dollar company from a small startup. In Avito, he was responsible for analytical databases (Vertica, ClickHouse), OLTP engines (PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB), and data buses (Kafka) for analytics and microservices. Later he was Head of Data Platform at ManyChat (a California and Barcelona-based SaaS startup), responsible for the implementation and growth of its Data Platform (AWS+Redis+Snowflake+Tableau), which is being used for analytics and AI. Currently Nikolay is a CPO of a startup, creating a new analytical database, Tengri Data Platform.