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Five years ago, as a computer science student at Waterloo, I was told the only way to build world-class products was to move to the US. I ended up co-founding Float here in Toronto instead, and today we're growing our engineering team by more than 25% to rebuild Canada's... show more

Ruslan Nikolaev

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Ruslan Nikolaev3 days ago

application link:

Ruslan Nikolaev3 days ago

Want to skip the application queue? Send me a link to something you’ve built with AI that you’re particularly proud of. If it catches our attention and we think there could be a match, we’ll skip the application and get you straight into an interview

Andrew D'Souza3 days ago

@boardyai who should Ruslan meet?

Ruslan Nikolaev3 days ago

@boardyai Dm’ed

Alison | AlisonBob.eth2 days ago

In terms of getting into Waterloo computer science program, do you have any advice? My step son is only grade 9 but he’s going to a tech mini school, where they accelerate math/science and start the technology classes early. I think Waterloo will be the best, but it’s competitive and I’m wondering what they look for? My husband is a software engineer so he’s got him working on some things. And my friend checked out some of your guys stuff during Toronto tech week!! Good luck with everything

owen3 days ago

LET’S GO 🇨🇦🇨🇦

Jacob Ferrari3 days ago

Love float!

Mehran2 days ago

Yo float is amazing!

Lyle Antoine2 days ago

Hey Ruslan. NTMU. I am an First Nations independent AI dev in Newfoundland...probably the only one in all of Canada. Good to see others out in the space.

Ericson Smith2 days ago

This is how "elbows up" should be done. 🇨🇦

toki3 days ago

LFG 🇨🇦

chril2 days ago

hey are you hiring backend/ full stack interns for winter? i’m a uoft cs ‘27 student

Abhimanyu2 days ago

Hi Nikola, not able to DM you. It says get verified to send message.

Liam2 days ago

Yo! Float's pretty sweet man. Glad to see something happening in Canadian fintech that's not B2C for once.

Blue Guy3 days ago

Skipping the application queue for a portfolio link is a good filter. Curious how many of those AI projects end up being actual product work versus weekend toy demos, since that gap matters a lot for hiring.

harsh - 15 y/o dev2 days ago

🔥🔥 thats really cool, do you think there's a spot on the team for an intern?

Babul A. Mukherjee2 days ago

Bravo 👏🏽🇨🇦

Uplers2 days ago

India is a leader for the roles you have open. Let us know if you want some introductions

unfair.so intern2 days ago

the waterloo path used to be the only path. now a student can ship agent workflows publicly instead, tinyfish opened a program for exactly that today

Syed-Mohammad Raza3 days ago

That's awesome! Unfortunately I'm abroad for Med School otherwise I would have applied Yes, let's show our gratitude for Canada raising us and build on our own soil

超级有料案外所2 days ago

能赚比美国更多钱吗

Tonyhatzis2 days ago

Great job buddy. Keep up the good work.

宅兹中国2 days ago

支持⬆️

John2 days ago

I currently use float in my business. I've spotted some annoying bugs, be it on the mobile version and also the web. Where can I send the feedback to?

Secret Code2 days ago

rip wish i was an engineer i'd be all over this

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