SOFTWARE ENGINEER · FORWARD DEPLOYED
Mykola “Nick”
Maklakov
I build software people actually use — from trading apps with real volume to AI agents that get paid on-chain.
Robotics Engineering student at Queen Mary University of London, ranked top of my year. I like owning a problem end-to-end: talking to users, shipping the product, and making it hold up in production.
02 / 06 — PROJECTS
Things I've built
Selected work across trading systems, AI agents and DeFi.
FEATURED · PEAR PROTOCOL · 2026
PyrusHL
A cross-platform pair-trading app on Hyperliquid that reached $5M in lifetime trading volume, with automated take-profit and stop-loss executed atomically on-chain.
$5M
lifetime volume
Shipped
to real traders
FEATURED · ETH OXFORD TOP 7 · COLOSSEUM
SOTA: AI Agent Marketplace
A marketplace where users post jobs and autonomous AI agents bid, execute and get paid in USDC, with payment held in Solana escrow until delivery.
Top 7 / 150+
ETH Oxford
Top 4 / 80+
HackEurope · Solana
RESEARCH · PYTHON
Statistical Arbitrage Research Pipeline
A from-scratch, deliberately honest test of pairs trading on crypto and US stocks, built to find out whether the edge survives real costs and unseen data.
HACKATHON · ARC
ArcVault: DeFi Treasury Management
An on-chain treasury and FX platform: idle USDC earns yield, payouts convert currencies instantly, and department budgets are enforced by smart contracts.
03 / 06 — EXPERIENCE
Where I've worked
Software Engineer Intern · Pear Protocol
FEB 2026 — JUL 2026 · LONDON
- Built and maintained PyrusHL, a cross-platform pair-trading application that reached $5M in lifetime trading volume.
- Developed automated take-profit and stop-loss logic with atomic on-chain execution on Hyperliquid.
04 / 06 — SKILLS
Skills
Languages
- Python
- C++
- Java
- SQL
AI & Agents
- Agentic AI systems
- Voice AI agents
- Agent orchestration
- LLM integration
- Third-party APIs
Web & Data
- React
- Next.js
- HTMX
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- REST APIs
- Data pipelines
- Cross-platform apps
Quant
- NumPy
- pandas
- statsmodels
- Time-series analysis
- Backtesting
- Transaction-cost modelling
05 / 06 — EDUCATION & LEADERSHIP
Background
EDUCATION
Queen Mary University of London
BEng Robotics Engineering
SEPT 2025 — MAY 2028 (EXPECTED)
- Predicted First-Class Honours
- Ranked top of the class in Year 1 (77% average)
- IMechE Best Student Certificate for outstanding first-year achievement
Dover College
A-Levels A*AA: Mathematics A*, Further Mathematics A, Physics A
2022 — 2025
EARLIER · 1st place, Poltava Oblast Mathematics Olympiad · 3rd place, Competitive Programming Olympiad (Ukraine)
LEADERSHIP
Vice President · QMUL FinTech Society
- Co-organising Leverage London, a cross-university AI hackathon with LSE, UCL and King's.
- Co-organising a UK-wide investment competition across 20+ universities.
- Running technical workshops on coding and quantitative finance with industry speakers, including J.P. Morgan.
LANGUAGES · Ukrainian, Russian (native) · English (fluent, IELTS) · German (pre-intermediate)
06 / 06 — CONTACT
Let's build something.
Open to Software Engineering and Forward Deployed Engineering internships. The fastest way to reach me is email.