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Nikita Strezhnev

Nikita Strezhnev

Analytics leader focused on retail, delivery and AI transformation

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Riga, Latvia
Tallinn, Estonia
Joined September 2025
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Summary

Built and scaled analytics & AI in retail and grocery: led Rimi Baltic's data & AI transformation, moving multiple use cases into production (customer insights, personalization and marketing analytics) and establishing a data-driven approach across the business. youtube+1
Delivery & product analytics leadership at Bolt: led analytics for the Delivery vertical (Bolt Food & Bolt Market), focusing on linking customer experience and operational heuristics to business metrics and enabling analytics-led product and ops decisions. theorg+1
Public communicator and community builder: speaks at industry conferences about practical lessons from AI adoption, writes essays and analytics commentary on Medium, and contributes to the regional data community (Tallinn Data Week organising team). medium+2
Early-stage investor and ecosystem participant: member / angel investor at BADideas.fund and active in startup / data event communities in the Baltics. theorg+1

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Lessons Learnt from the AI journey at Rimi (Presentation / video)

June 1, 2022

Conference presentation reviewing Rimi's AI/data journey, lessons about taking AI from pilot to scaled business value and organisational issues around data literacy and scaling models.

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On The Choices of Ordinary Men

July 1, 2020

Medium essay reflecting on moral responsibility and societal choices (published on Medium).

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PowerBI. With all the resources pushing it forward, theres little doubt it will overtake the others

March 1, 2018

Short Medium piece on BI tooling and PowerBI (written 2018).

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Hobbies

Public writing and speaking (Medium essays, conference presentations) and involvement in data community events. medium+2