NK-01 / WITTEN, DE / 51.4378°N 7.3353°E / LOOP ACTIVE

SPACECRAFT CONTROL → HVAC SYSTEMS → AI PRODUCTS

Nikita Kapitonov

Full-stack AI product engineer.
From control rooms to control loops.

MIPT-trained spacecraft control engineer. Two decades building HVAC controllers, monitoring and remote-control products. Now shipping AI-powered applications that turn messy real-world signals into decisions.

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  • 20+years in HVAC product engineering
  • 3,000telemetry readings per minute through my monitoring server
  • ~100support requests a day handled by my AI agent, per typical client
  • 2014 → 2026my controller designs are still backward compatible
01SUMMARY

Sense. Reason. Act.

The through-line of my career is control systems — the discipline of sensing a system, reasoning about its state, and acting on it. It started with simulating the ISS alarm-indication dashboard, ran through two decades of HVAC monitoring and remote control, and now lives in AI agents that read messy real-world signals and do something useful with them.

I work end to end: backend telemetry servers, TypeScript / Next.js front ends, native mobile apps, and the product management around them. Lately most of that work is AI-assisted — both building AI products and rewiring how software gets built.

02FLIGHT LOG

Experience

  1. Aug 2023 → Present 3 yr 2 mo NRW, DE ACTIVE

    HVAC Controls Manufacturer

    Full Stack Product Engineer

    • HVAC remote-control apps for OEM customers iOS & AndroidTypeScript
    • High-load monitoring server for telemetry ingestion & retrieval 3,000 readings/minBackend
    • Smart Monitoring Platform — full-stack solution Next.jsProduct
    • AI Smart Data / Product Assistant Agent Product Engineer
    • AI Internal Knowledge Base Assistant Agent Product Engineer
    • AI Customer Support Assistant Agent ~100 requests/day per typical clientProduct Engineer
    • OEM HVAC project & product management
    • AI-assisted development engineering & adoption
    • Junior developer mentoring
  2. Nov 2009 → Jun 2023 13 yr 8 mo Moscow, RU

    HydroMONTAGE

    Head of Automation & Monitoring

    Guiding the company’s products through the market storms:

    • Visual configuration tool for a heating controller (2008) C#
    • Monitoring device for heating systems (2009–2016) units from 2010 still in serviceJavaME
    • Online monitoring service for heating systems (2010–…) Product
    • Remote-control software for HVAC controllers — web, iOS & Android (2014–2018) Project
    • Family of versatile HVAC controllers (2014–…) 2014 designs compatible with 2026 devicesProduct
    • Web app for automatic HVAC project documentation (2012–…) Product
    • Corporate knowledge base (2017–…) Product
    • Built production & customer-support workflows; hiring, team management, procurement and knowledge management
  3. May 2014 → Mar 2016 1 yr 11 mo Krasnogorsk, RU

    Chai-Fai Anticafe

    Founder

    • Founded and ran a family-friendly, pay-per-minute coworking space — everything included, guests pay only for their time.
  4. Sep 2008 → Sep 2009 1 yr 1 mo Moscow, RU

    IBS

    SAP Business Intelligence Consultant

    • Integrated the SAP BI module into customer workflows, on projects with Gazprom, Metalloinvest and Sibur-RT (formerly TAIF).
  5. Nov 2006 → Jun 2007 8 mo Korolyov, RU

    RSC Energia

    Student Intern

    • Built a PC visual simulation of the ISS alarm-indication dashboard. Space systems
  6. Jul 2004 → Sep 2004 3 mo Moscow, RU

    Parallels

    C++ Developer Intern

    • Developed a Xen driver enabling GPU acceleration for virtualization. C++
03DEPLOYED · LIVE

Projects

01 WEB APP 2026 – Present

SmartBot Cloud

Listens to your Telegram chats, extracts decisions, how-tos and important context, and builds a searchable knowledge base — without anyone writing docs.

smartbot.kapitonov.su
02 WEB APP 2026 – Present

Snow Melting Control

Intelligent snow-melting control system. Automatic snow detection via IP cameras and heating-system control — save energy and prevent icing.

snegotayka.ru
03 TELEGRAM BOT May 2025 – Present

Focus To-Do Pomodoro Bot

Track your tasks and time straight from a Telegram interface.

t.me/focus_todo_pomodoro_bot
04 TELEGRAM BOT 2023 – Present

Teplomonitor HVAC Support Bot

Telegram bot that supports customers by answering questions about a specific family of HVAC controllers.

t.me/teplomonitor_assistant_bot
04SYSTEMS ONBOARD

Skills & capabilities

TOP SKILLS

  1. 01AI Agents
  2. 02AI-Powered Development
  3. 03Product Engineering

CORE STACK

  • TypeScript
  • Next.js / React
  • Node / Backend
  • iOS & Android
  • C#
  • JavaME
  • C++
  • VBA

AI

  • AI Agents
  • AI-Powered Development
  • Product Engineering
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Cursor AI
  • Prompt Engineering

PRODUCT & OPS

  • Product Management
  • Project Management
  • IPMA Level D
  • Team Mentoring
  • Procurement
  • Knowledge Management

DOMAINS

  • HVAC Control
  • Telemetry / High-Load
  • Monitoring Platforms
  • IoT & Remote Control
  • SAP BI
  • Space Systems

LANGUAGES

  • RussianNative
  • EnglishFluent · C1
  • GermanElementary
05EDUCATION

Where it started

2003 – 2009

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)

Master · Space Physics, Systems Analysis & IT Management

One of Russia’s most demanding science and engineering institutes — the foundation for a career spent reasoning about complex systems.

IPMA

IPMA Level D

Certified Project Management Associate

TRAINING & COURSES 11 courses · 2007–2008 · project management, requirements, modeling
  • 2008
    Software Configuration Management with IBM ClearCase (UCM) Luxoft Training Center
  • 2008
    Requirements Management with IBM Rational RequisitePro Luxoft Training Center
  • 2008
    Requirements Development & Management with Use Cases Luxoft Training Center
  • 2008
    Visual CASE Modeling with IBM Rational Rose Luxoft Training Center
  • 2008
    Object-Oriented Analysis & Design with UML Luxoft Training Center
  • 2007
    IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) Fundamentals Luxoft Training Center
  • 2007
    Business Process Modeling with ARIS VIP Anatech Consulting Company
  • 2007
    Project Planning & Control with MS Project / Project Server 2000/2003 Luxoft Training Center
  • 2007
    Team Building & Management for IT Projects Luxoft Training Center
  • 2007
    Risk Management Luxoft Training Center
  • 2007
    Project Planning & Execution Control Fundamentals Luxoft Training Center
06COMMS

Let’s build something
that reads the real world.

NEW · AI-NATIVE DEVELOPMENT Software that builds itself — consulting for companies, a course for specialists. kapitonov.su/ai