I occasionally like to write about business and technology. Here are some links.
A look into how Europe is making digital Healthcare Systems through regulation.
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A story about staying compliant with TLS cipher suites against various governmental and other third-party security frameworks in the k8s world.
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A brief behind the scenes examination of what happens when an app/developer runs a SQL query to fetch data from a PostgresDB database.
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Get on the hype train for Big Data in Kubernetes with this Spark tutorial
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Jump and run in this brief introduction to Big Data with Hadoop, Hive, Parquet, Hue and Docker.
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Get up and running with Process Mining by trying out Celonis Snap and analyzing your first process.
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Up and running with Spring Boot, Docker and the ELK stack at break-neck speed.
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The current state of training artifical neural networks on non-CUDA GPUs.
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A short deep dive into Android Automotive and how Apple and Google are doing in the new mobility wars.
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A brief intro to how AI business models work and whether your startup could ever potentially break even with AI.
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Nikolay is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Kranus Health, a globally leading player in virtual care for Urology. The company focuses on developing clinically validated therapies for a wide range of indications from Andrology to Uro-Oncology. Together with his Co-Founders, Nikolay's company secured $20M+ in VC funding and achieved a significant 7-figure revenue run rate within its first commercial year. Nikolay has played a pivotal role in scaling Kranus Health to over 70 full-time employees in just over three years. The company holds the rank of #23 fastest-growing startup in Germany, #1 in Healthcare (GlassDollar, 2022) and has been covered in over 40 media outlets (Forbes, Sifted, Business Insider, Bild, Les Échos, Handelsblatt, Esquire, ...)
Nikolay was also awarded the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe recognition in the category Science & Healthcare followed by the Capital Top 40 unter 40 award in Germany in 2024. Additionally, Nikolay was a member of the Forbes Technology Council, providing insights into European digital healthcare harmonization. He is also a contributing writer at Towards Data Science, focusing on technology trends and innovations around AI. He is also active as an Angel Investor in the German startup ecosystem.
Nikolay's career includes past positions such as Senior Product Manager (Platform Infrastructure & Data Lake) at Celonis, one of Europe's most valuable startups. He was also a Tech Executive: Software Engineering (focus: NLP & data mining) at Motius, a deep tech R&D consultancy for large enterprises, where he worked with customers like BMW and Allianz. Prior to that he held internship positions in various roles at KPMG, Siemens, Payoneer Germany, as well as TelefĂłnica Germany.
He holds a M.Sc. degree in computer science from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and he wrote his thesis on "A text mining and NLP based approach to exploring the incentives for consumer health wearables". It all started in boarding school with making websites for friends & family and selling/designing T-Shirt prints. And even prior to that: figuring out how to let bots farm loot in RPG games (Diablo 2) in primary school.