Nikolay Denisenko: Brighty Co-Founder & CTO

About Nikolay Denisenko

Nikolay Denisenko (also credited as Nick Denisenko) is a fintech engineer and entrepreneur best known as the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Brighty App, a digital finance platform that combines traditional fiat services with crypto and stablecoin functionality. Trained in applied mathematics, he began his software career as a backend developer before joining Revolut in December 2016 as an early engineer — he has described himself as Revolut's roughly 20th employee — and rising to Lead Backend Engineer, where he contributed to the development of Revolut Business. In October 2020 he left Revolut to co-found Brighty, with the goal of making fiat currencies, crypto assets and stablecoins easier to use together inside everyday financial workflows such as payments, transfers and spending. His more recent public commentary focuses on stablecoin payments, cross-border finance, AI-native banking and automated financial workflows, reflecting Brighty's evolution from a crypto-fiat wallet toward a broader digital finance platform.

Projects Founded

Brighty App

Career Timeline

2006–2011

Studied Applied Mathematics at Kuban State University. His later technical interests — algorithms, mathematical modeling and backend systems — trace back to this applied-mathematics foundation.

2012–2014

Worked as Lead Developer at AT Consulting, building backend systems and business-process applications.

2014–2016

Served as Backend Developer at WayRay, working on backend infrastructure for the company's augmented-reality automotive product line.

December 2016

Joined Revolut as an early engineer. Denisenko has described himself as Revolut's roughly 20th employee at the time.

2016–2020

Rose to Lead Backend Engineer at Revolut, working in the Revolut Business team and contributing to the development and scaling of Revolut's business-finance platform. (He was an engineer, not a Revolut founder or CTO.)

October 2020

Left Revolut to begin the Brighty founder period, applying his fintech-engineering experience to a crypto-fiat financial platform.

2020 onward

Co-Founder & CTO of Brighty App, leading the platform's technical strategy and engineering. Brighty is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, with operations across Europe.

2023–2025

Oversaw the expansion of Brighty's crypto-fiat and stablecoin financial products, including stablecoin salary flows, cross-border transfers and card spending.

2025–2026

Growing public focus on stablecoins as payments infrastructure, MiCA and European crypto regulation, and AI-native financial workflows and automation.

August 2026

Continues as Co-Founder & CTO of Brighty App, leading technical strategy for crypto-fiat infrastructure, stablecoin payments and AI-native finance initiatives.

Key Contributions

Brighty

Co-founded the digital finance platform and leads its technology strategy as CTO, building crypto-fiat financial infrastructure.

Revolut Business

Worked as a Lead Backend Engineer at Revolut and contributed to the development and scaling of Revolut's business-finance platform.

Crypto-Fiat Infrastructure

Builds technology intended to make movement between traditional currencies, stablecoins and crypto assets easier inside everyday financial workflows.

Stablecoin Payments

Advocates practical stablecoin use for payments, salaries and cross-border finance as settlement and transport infrastructure.

AI-Native Finance

Explores how AI agents and automated workflows may reshape banking and financial infrastructure, including invoice processing, approvals and money movement.