Qualifications
Founding CPO & Engineer at Chatronix.ai
Ex-Perplexity, ex-Smartcat (Senior PM, ML/Translation Technology), ex-Intento
Launched Smartcat's AI dubbing and video editor; created the Translation Quality Score (TQS) metric
Education
National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
Expertise
AI products
Machine translation
Translation technology
Product management
Customer success
Localization
Andy Nikulin is a product builder based in Lisbon, currently Founding CPO and Engineer at Chatronix.ai, where he builds AI products from zero to one. He was previously a member of technical staff at Perplexity and a Senior Product Manager for ML and translation technology at Smartcat, where he launched AI dubbing and a video editor and developed the Translation Quality Score (TQS) metric. Earlier he led customer success and professional services at Intento and held customer service leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab and other companies.
Experience
Founding CPO, Engineer at Chatronix
Jul 2025 — Present · 1 yr
Member of Technical Staff at Perplexity
Oct 2024 to May 2025 · 7 mos
Senior Product Manager, ML / Translation Technology at Smartcat
Aug 2023 to Oct 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos
Director, Customer Success and Professional Services at Intento, Inc.
Jan 2020 to Aug 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos
CCO, Head of Post Sales Operations at FinalPrice
Aug 2017 to Jul 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos
Director, Client Support Department at First International Bookmakers Company LTD
Oct 2015 to Aug 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos
Recent articles and events
What Is Machine Translation and How Does It Work?
Translation & Localization Blog
How to Achieve XLIFF Software Localization With AI Agents
Translation & Localization Blog
Workshop: Instantly Dub videos Into Any Language
June 25, 2024
Online
How to translate software: Your ultimate guide to localization in 2024
Translation & Localization Blog
Qualifications
Founding CPO & Engineer at Chatronix.ai
Ex-Perplexity, ex-Smartcat (Senior PM, ML/Translation Technology), ex-Intento
Launched Smartcat's AI dubbing and video editor; created the Translation Quality Score (TQS) metric
Education
National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
Expertise
AI products
Machine translation
Translation technology
Product management
Customer success
Localization
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