Nikolai Terenia

Nikolai Terenia is an entrepreneurial software engineer who co-founded two AI startups, Blort AI and Cognity, where he serves as the technical lead. A graduate of Harbour. Space University, his expertise spans software design, data engineering, and building microservices. He actively applies his skills in AI, including prompt engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

Originally from Belarus, Nikolai is passionate about both building technology and teaching it. He dedicates time to educating others as a Computer Science Teacher at Leagues of Code, focusing on front-end and back-end development. His work reflects a deep interest in full-stack web development and marketing automation.

He built his own note-taking app, Cognity, because he personally disliked spending time organizing notes and wanted to create a different solution.