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Sergei Anikin

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Director of Engineering at Bolt
📍 Tallinn Metropolitan Area, Estonia

Sergei Anikin is the Director of Engineering at Bolt, leveraging over 25 years of experience from leadership roles at Tuum, Pipedrive, and Skype. An alumnus of TalTech, he is a seasoned angel investor and board member focused on founder-led startups. Colleagues describe him as reliable, conscientious, and knowledgeable, with excellent technical and business sense.

Sergei is driven by the philosophical questions behind business decisions, focusing on how we build, think, and what we overlook. He values clarity, discipline, and courage, shaped by early career responsibilities and a decision to step away from a secure role to rediscover his personal drivers. He is a thought partner for founders.

He holds a patent for a communication system and method designed to control network connections between user terminals and access nodes.

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Experience
4 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Tallinn Metropolitan Area, Estonia
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Founder-Led Startups
His professional headline identifies him as a "Thought Partner for Founder-Led Startups, " and he actively invests in and advises them.
Scaling Engineering Teams
As Director of Engineering at Bolt and former CTO at Pipedrive, where he grew the team from 10 to 200, he has a proven track record of scaling technical organizations.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
Director of Engineering
Bolt
4-2025
Member of The Supervisory Board
Inbank
4-2024
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Bisly - Scalable Building Automation
1-2021 - 11-2025
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Katana Smart Manufacturing Software
6-2022 - 5-2023
Chief Executive Officer
Tuum
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Education
1993 - 1998
MS
TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology
1983 - 1991
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26 secondary school
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