Nick Smirnoff is a seasoned entrepreneur with more than 13 years of experience in the enterprise software development industry. He is the Founder and CEO of Hystax, a company that offers disaster recovery products and IT resilience solutions recognized as leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. With a proven track record of building highly focused teams of IT professionals and managing international teams, Nick Smirnoff has grown his team from 12 to 50+ engineers fostering a family-style sense of community among them. For his education, he achieved a Cum Laude at Smolensk State University in Computer and Information Sciences.

As a specialist in Team Leadership, Project Management, Cloud Solutions, Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, OpenStack, and Containers, he has led and developed a successful acquisition and has transferred 80% of company engineering tasks to a local department which helped to reduce engineering expenses three times. His previous positions include Director of Engineering at Axcient and DirectRestore LLC, Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at OfficeRecovery LLP, Software Engineer at OfficeRecovery LLP, and Intern at the Smolensk State University.