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Team

The team

Braingency is led by two hands-on engineers. Both founders write code, review architecture and work directly on client systems.

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Misela Sehurina

Co-founder & CEO

Misela is co-founder and CEO of Braingency, and a hands-on engineer rather than a hands-off executive. Her primary stack is Ruby on Rails, and she personally designs system architecture and data models, builds and scales Rails applications, implements financial logic and automation pipelines, integrates banking, KYC, payment and AI services, and reviews all critical code.

She holds an MA in Development Education and Global Learning from the UCL Institute of Education and a BSc in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, with additional study at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is certified in Supervised Machine Learning (Regression and Classification).

Before Braingency she was CEO of Copy Brain, an AI content generation company, and spent over a decade as a mathematics lecturer alongside her engineering work. Her earlier career includes senior project management and managing director roles across IT and business consulting in Riga.

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Nikita Gnotovs

Co-founder & CTO

Nikita is co-founder and CTO of Braingency, a senior full-stack Ruby architect with 15 years of professional experience specialising in fintech products and complex financial platforms.

He designs system architectures from the ground up — data models, business logic and scalable APIs — with a focus on security, performance and regulatory requirements. His work spans backend and frontend, building high-load systems and integrating banking APIs, payment providers, credit scoring services, KYC/KYB solutions and third-party data sources. He is responsible for architectural decisions, technical strategy and long-term system scalability, and leads code review and mentoring across the engineering team.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance from the Baltic International Academy — a combination of financial and engineering training that is directly relevant to the lending systems Braingency builds.

His track record includes CRM systems, online education platforms and networking platforms, and he has served as CTO of Copy Brain and as a lead developer across a range of production Rails systems since 2010.

03 Working at Braingency

A small, senior team

We are a small, senior team. Our engineering culture is built on ownership: the people who design a system are the people who build it and keep it running.

Braingency is committed to an equitable and inclusive workplace. Our Gender Equality Plan sets out how we approach this in practice.