Nikita Yampolski

Current Focus

• One Mental Hub — Co-Founder, CPO & CTO (2025–present). Evidence-based mental health platform connecting patients and professionals, reducing 6–12 month wait times through early screening and intervention programs
• Spirit X Solutions AG — CE Medical Device (cat. 2a, MRD) platform with University Hospital Zurich (USZ); launched B2B2C SaaS in under 6 months with 70% cost optimization
• Invented the Mental Health Score (MHS) — composite 0–1000 wellness metric integrating PHQ-9, GAD-7, WSAS and daily mood EMA data; patent-pending, published on ResearchGate
• Building with Anthropic, OpenAI & Mistral AI — agentic mental health chatbot, AI data analysis, and intervention suggestion systems

Key Achievements & Impact

• Invented Mental Health Score (MHS) — composite wellness metric integrating validated clinical assessments and ecological momentary data
• Built and launched 10+ products from scratch — one achieved #1 AppStore ranking, mentioned by Tim Ferriss
• $5B+ value generated through commodity trading SaaS and marketplace platforms
• 400% growth during COVID-19; scaled products to 1M MAU via PLG, SEO, and ASO
• 6x Product-Led Growth after product turnaround; led cross-functional teams of 15+ FTEs
• Award-winning products: S&P Rising Star 2020, WEF Technology Pioneer 2019, Red Herring Top 100

Technical Expertise & AI/LLM Stack

Hands-on with Anthropic, OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, Cursor — agents, pipelines, and multilingual LLM research. Built AI Mental Health Chatbot and AI-powered pattern recognition for clinical data.

Tech Stack: TypeScript, NodeJS, Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Supabase, AWS, Azure. Background in algorithmic trading (C/C++, NASDAQ).

Expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Agile, Kanban, Scrum, and Lean product development.

Regulatory Compliance & Certifications

• CE Medical Device (cat. 2a, MRD) certified platform development for healthcare
• FinSA/FIDLEG compliance for FinTech wealth management platforms
• ISO 9001:2008 certification (led company to certification, reporting to CEO & CTO)

Selected Track Record

• Mental Health (One Mental Hub / USZ): CE-certified B2B2C SaaS in operation; partnerships with WHO, SRK, ETH, and University of Zurich
• Commodity Trading (Open Mineral): Scaled SaaS marketplace to $5B+ offer value and 400% COVID-era growth
• FinTech (WealthArc): Scaled wealth management platform with FinSA/FIDLEG regulatory compliance
• Speech AI & NLP (Spitch AG): Global Development Director; helped shape pioneering speech-recognition and proprietary LLM technology serving customers including Spotify, AXA, and SBB

Education & Certifications

• MSc and BSc in Computer Science — Donetsk State Institute of Artificial Intelligence
• Harvard University CS50 — Computer Science Course Program
• IPMA Agile Project Management Certification — International Project Management Association

Research & Publications

• "The Mental Health Score (MHS): A Composite Wellness Metric Integrating Validated Clinical Assessments and Ecological Momentary Data" — Invented by Nikita Yampolski; patent-pending. A 0–1000 composite metric integrating PHQ-9, GAD-7, WSAS and daily mood EMA for longitudinal wellness tracking. Published on ResearchGate.
• "Language-Dependent Communication Strategies in Multilingual Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of Russian and English Response Patterns in Mistral AI" — Published on Zenodo. Investigates how language selection in multilingual LLMs affects communication strategy beyond translation accuracy.