we could work together
We can do a one-hour consultation on a decision you're stuck on, or work together on a project basis.
Nonprofits and community projects: free or at cost, a couple of slots each quarter ☻
Write me at ciao@sergeynugaev.com or reach out on LinkedIn.
I can help you with
- Making a good education/impact product
- Making it with the right tech
- Making it profitable
- Making fewer mistakes and more fun
experience
Journey Now. Co‑Founder, CEO
An app that turns a creator’s knowledge into a guided practice journey their whole audience can follow, with a recurring revenue share for the creator.
Live on iOS and Android since March 2026, with 44% weekly retention on creator-led journeys. 200+ practices built with international musicians, filmmakers, and photographers.
Yandex Practicum. Co‑Founder, Head of Product
From zero to €12M annual revenue. 30,000 students a year, 25+ programs, 71% of graduates employed (HSE University research). I ran the programming faculty, the flagship and the largest coding bootcamp in Russia and the CIS.
TripleTen. Product Strategy, US Launch
US market entry: product strategy, curriculum, and educational frameworks adapted for the market.
Kruzhok. Co‑Founder, CEO
An independent nonprofit, started from scratch with zero funding. Free week-long creative programs for teenagers in villages and small towns: 38 programs led by creators across 15 regions of Russia, 400+ participants. Every program ended in a public project: media websites, podcasts, a music album, print zines, an art exhibition, documentary films, music videos.
Creators co-authored the programs, and over the years 1,000+ people and organizations wrote to us asking to work together. Built with adidas, Miro, Tinkoff Bank, Teach For All, and Strelka Institute.
A 70-minute film by Yuri Dud (5.7M views) and coverage in Deutsche Welle, Meduza, Monocle, Esquire, Kommersant, RBC, TV Rain, and New East Digital Archive.
Moscow Coding School. Program Author, CEO
An offline coding school built around practice and project work, taught by guest instructors from SoundCloud, Google, and other companies.
Engineering
Co‑founder and CTO of Orientir, a design and web development studio, 2017 → 2018.
Web developer at Astroshock, 2016 → 2017, including the World Chess Championship site.
Teaching
Lecture series for HSE Art & Design School. Events with the British Council, Impact Hub, Beat Film Festival, Friedrich‑Ebert‑Stiftung, and Harbour Space University.
Moscow State University. MSc Mathematics
Forbes 30 Under 30, 2021.