About Nikita Cunskis

Senior engineer and fractional CTO in Riga, Latvia. I built my first website in 2010, have worked as a professional engineer since 2016, and have run my own company, SIA Cunskis, since October 2025. I build and operate marketplaces, lending systems and AI-assisted products, mostly in Laravel and Vue.

Timeline

2010

First website, at fifteen: a Counter-Strike 1.6 clan page. It was fun, and it is why I am here.

2012

An anime streaming project for Latvia that took part in the first UniCon conventions and later grew into AnimeForums.lv.

2015

Started studying at Alberta College in Riga and, almost immediately, an internship at Schneider Electric.

2016–2018

Schneider Electric, Riga: trainee for four months, then Junior Software Engineer. A planner for three-sided SMD boards and work on EAGLE, the factory management system.

2018–2022

Latvijas Pasts, Middle Software Engineer, PHP and Laravel: an interface for industrial weighing scales, the Expresspasts service, and an e-signature system for post offices with physical signature pads.

2022–2024

Dun & Bradstreet, Senior Software Engineer in the Latvian office: the Latvian data behind D&B Hoovers and a company-indexing engine for Latvia. The only engineer on site, responsible for architecture and delivery.

2023

Fluss: my own multi-tenant marketplace platform, started alongside the day job. First client OtakuFest, a convention shop that has since closed.

2025

RGP SIA, Senior Software Engineer: Kreboks, an agricultural B2B marketplace on Fluss with state-registry integrations, 500 additional tenants and a target of 6,000. SIA Cunskis registered in October.

2025–now

Vuelo, Senior Software Engineer on contract: an FCA-authorised Buy-Now-Pay-Later platform for travel, one of seven engineers, responsible for fraud prevention and the travel search engines.

2026

Jobsucher, an AI-assisted job-search product of my own, in invite-only MVP. Fluss reaches 5 languages, 8 plug-ins and 51 payment gateways; Jobsucher and Elontrade use it as their payment system.

How I work

• Every feature starts with a written scope and ends with a demo. Nothing reaches production without a testing window for the client's team.
• The main branch takes pull requests only, migrations go forward only, and when something breaks the root cause is written down before the fix is merged.
• I say no in writing. A request that should not be built gets a reason, not a delay.

Company

SIA Cunskis, registration number 40203687305, VAT number LV40203687305, registered in Riga on 9 October 2025. Legal address: Ģertrūdes iela 99 k-2 - 42, Riga, LV-1009, Latvia. Principal activity: computer programming (NACE 62.10). Invoices are issued from Latvia in euro.

Languages

Latvian natively, English at working level for everything written and spoken, German at B1: enough for a meeting, not enough for a contract.

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