Sustained was founded to help people make better choices. More informed choices, based on reliable, trusted and accurate information.
Technologists, data scientists and researchers, software engineers, designers and product managers - the Sustained team come from an eclectic set of backgrounds - all with a desire to help drive better outcomes based on data and ease of use.
Meet the team
Charlotte Franzellin
Sr. Product Manager
An environmental engineer with consulting and tech startup experience that has long been a sustainability and product enthusiast. Charlotte has found the best of both worlds at Sustained, where She an help create intuitive products that can help anyone make more sustainable choices on a daily basis.
Chloe Elkin
Content & Social Media Manager
Born and raised in London, Chloe is passionate about making complex topics accessible to everyone. Chloe currently runs our social media pages which can be found below.
Lyudmila Lugovskaya
Sr. Data Scientist
Lyudmila is a data scientist with diverse background encompassing academic research, applied finance, psychology, maritime analytics and more. Her passion is to turn messy data into useful insights that can drive positive change.
Alexia Polis
Product Designer
Born and raised in Lima - Peru, Lex is a product designer who is passionate about using her creative thinking and design skills to build innovative products that will inspire change. She believes in the power of tech to reach, facilitate, impact and improve people's daily lives. Inspired by human behaviour, data and her personal experiences, Lex constantly comes up with new ideas that always focuses on and prioritises the user's needs
Jevgeni Zaborovski
Software Engineer
Jevgeni is a front-end software engineer at Sustained. Born and raised in Tallinn, Estonia. Experienced with developing scalable web applications, such as internet banking and marketplaces with thousands of happy users. He is very excited to be a part of the Sustained team and deliver well-crafted software to the end-user.
Mihhail Lapushkin
Sr. Software Engineer
Software Engineer based in Tallinn, Estonia.
Allan Rank
Sr. Software Engineer
Allan is a backend engineer at Sustained with over 20 years of experience working in software development at companies like Skype, Microsoft and Twilio. He is based in Tallinn, Estonia
Ari Gold
Associate Data Researcher
Born in South Africa and raised in England, Ari brings a diverse way of thinking to his role as a data researcher at Sustained. His deep passion to understand the physics that drives the complexity of the world has led him down the path of analysing data and providing important insights. He cares about solving the puzzles that present themselves in intricate data systems and translating them to build wonderous tech to reach and impact people's daily lives to encourage sustainable change.
Danila Sukharev
Sr. Software Engineer
Born and raised in west-most part of Russia (Kaliningrad), Danila moved to Moscow to get education. Started career there in Evernote, he moved to Estonia to join Skype/Microsoft and later continued his journey in Twilio. The most intriguing for him is to be a part of a team that build products for the millions of people - to make their lives (and the World) better.
Andrei Birjukov
Sr. Software Engineer
Andrei is a software engineer at Sustained, living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. He cares about designing secure and scalable services, systems and APIs. A long time gearhead and a system software enthusiast, he was formerly an engineering lead at Skype, Microsoft, and Twilio.
Sergei Chertkov
Product Architect
Sergei is an engineer by heart who is always busy building new cool things. He spent 6 years of his tech career in research working on applied AI and fault-tolerant systems, and more than 10 years building small independent projects and large-scale software systems, such as Skype and Twilio. His passion is to make cutting-edge technology advancements serve people in everyday life.
Michael Velenko
Co-Founder & CTO
Born and raised in Latvia, Michael has spent his career developing software at scale across Skype, Microsoft and Twilio. Having built and lead product engineering organisations in both the Old World and the New, his passion has always been creating useful things that last.
Carl Olivier
Co-Founder & CEO
Carl's journey in product and engineering began at the turn of the century in Cape Town. After moving to London and having worked at Skype, Microsoft and Twilio with a focus on product, Carl has turned his attention to an area he has a personal passion for, namely leaving things at least a little better than he found them.
