Nik Shulakov

Security-minded CIO/CTO/CISO, solutions architect and developer lead. I blend sharp analysis, leadership, and deep hands-on engineering. I help organizations make sense of their IT-everything from governance and architecture to coding standards, secure development operations, build and lead agile teams, in compliance.

I've spent 25+ years across management, architecture, engineering, and operations. My focus is building secure cloud platforms and the ways of working around them. I move comfortably between boardroom strategy and source code.

SSDLC AI Security by Design Azure AWS GCP Private Cloud Kubernetes Enterprise architecture Cloud architecture Software architecture
Nik Shulakov
Quick facts
• Roles: Solutions Architect, CIO/CTO/CISO, Enterprise Architect
• Strengths: Analytical framing, risk & impact mapping, technical leadership
• Tooling: AWS, Azure DevOps, GCP, Kubernetes, Git, Atlassian, variety of AI tools

Security leadership

Security governance - Telia Cygate

Owned security processes between HiQ and Telia Group: ISO27001 alignment, Security by Design Assessment & Validation, and SSDLC. Defined secure CI/CD and validation practices across teams.

ISO/IEC 27001 SSDLC CI/CD Compliance

Regulated architecture - Euroclear

Designed an Azure architecture for a new online product under strict internal regulations and ISO27001 controls. Set up pipelines and collaboration between Euroclear Global, Euroclear Sweden, and delivery teams.

Azure Security Standards Compliance CI/CD

Top management & advisory

CTO & Co‑founder - Hyperloyal International AB

As a co‑founder, I took the roles of CTO and Lead Developer. Responsible for the full cycle of IT management and delivery: building the team, architecture, coding, DevSecOps, and compliance. I used range of AI services such as image recognition and assisted typing

CTO Lead Developer DevSecOps AI assist

CIO - Profoto

Planned and executed the global e‑commerce launch, bringing together platform, PIM, CRM, ERP and marketing automation across 15+ languages and multiple currencies.

E‑commerce ERP PIM/CRM Global rollout

CTO - Sports New Media

Operational and technology leadership, architecture and implementation of high-load cloud social media management and content management platforms. Growing the systems and teams from the ground up, from 3K to 15M+ daily visitors.

Leadership Product delivery Digital media

Technical due diligence expert

IT‑centric assessments for PE investors-covering governance, architecture, security, processes, and commercial impact. Concrete risk minimisation plans and capex estimates that influence valuation.

Risk Capex IT/Cybersecurity Best practice

Selected consulting projects at HiQ Stockholm AB

Solutions Architect - Telia Cygate

Architecture for a new customer portal (Kubernetes). Established cross‑team collaboration, secure pipelines, and QA across a complex ecosystem.

Kubernetes CI/CD QA Integrations

Analyst/Advisor - Caption Data / Polygon Digital

Optimised AWS IoT cloud architecture for industrial sensors.

AWS IoT Performance

Solutions Architect - ADDA

Assessed the incumbent platform and defined the target architecture for Sweden's government procurement agency.

Target Architecture Public Sector

IoT BMS Analysis & Procurement - AMF Fastigheter

Led market analysis and procurement of smart building systems and presented scenarios for sustainable building management.

IoT Procurement Smart Buildings

Consulting services

  • Technical audit and second opinion. Risk/CapEx assessment, architecture & process review, source code review, M&A and investments readiness assessment.
  • Application development. By myself or with help of team(s), I can provide development services for web and mobile applications, as well as APIs and microservices.
  • DevSecOps & cloud platform engineering and hosting. Azure/AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, secure CI/CD, observability, cost governance. I can host and support your applications in public or private cloud environments with full responsibility for uptime, backups, security, and compliance.
  • Education and courses. I can share my knowledge with anyone interested in a structured and modular curriculum.

Toolbox

Platforms & tooling

Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, Atlassian, Cursor, VS Code, Git.

Languages

Russian (native), English (full professional), Swedish (full professional), Italian (intermediate), Spanish (beginner).

Education

Master's degree in Economics, Actuarial Mathematics. Best diploma award "Modular Software Systems".

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Physics

1991-1993

St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Economics

1993-1998

Me and my hobbies

I live between Stockholm and Nerja in Spain with my lovely wife Luba and Jack Russell terrier Loki. Some of my long-term hobbies include (but are not limited to):

  • Music production - own compositions and remakes of The Cure, Depeche Mode, David Bowie. Keyboards, guitars, mastering.
  • Hi-fi sound enthusiast - crazy on tubes and vinyls.
  • Home cook - with education in France and UK.
  • Reveal.World travel exploration platform - a mobile web application to document and guide to the most mysterious and hidden places around the world. Check out https://reveal.world/

Contact

Ready to discuss a challenge? Reach out below. Please remove spaces from the email address.

import security as sec
from delivery import DevSecOps
role = 'Solution Architect & CIO/CTO'
stack = ['Azure','AWS','GCP','Kubernetes','Azure DevOps']
focus = ['ISO27001','SSDLC','Security by Design','Due Diligence']
print('Let's build secure systems that ship fast.')

Email: nikita.shulakov @ webandsocial.com

Phone: +46 704200014