Master's degree

Exchange Student

W25 Alumni

Co-founded resume.io — an online platform for job seekers; the leading CV builder app with over 35M resumes built and 30k+ registrations per day. The company was acquired by Talent Inc. in 2021.

Post-acquisition, I took on the challenge of reimagining the technical foundation of Resume.io to align with Talent Inc.'s vision, transforming it into the flagship product of their portfolio. Under my leadership, we experienced phenomenal growth, expanding from 15 million users to 21.9 million by December 2022.

- Assembled the engineering team; contributed to the dev culture through code-reviews, implementing product-based approach (for example, engineers had ownership of A/B tests and business metrics) and mentorship;
- Passed the pre-acquisition technical due diligence and conducted regular security audits;
- Built a localisation platform for various countries, which allowed for quick expansion to dozens of sites (24+ websites powered by a single codebase) while also lowering long-term mai

Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder

In July 2021 resume.io was acquired by Talent Inc. — the leading resume and career advancement platform. I'm continuing my role as a head of engineering of the resume.io & career.io brands.

Head of Engineering, Career.io / Resume.io @ Talent Inc.

Smartomato is a SaaS platform for online food delivery, supporting over 2,000 restaurant businesses across Europe and Asia. It enables restaurant owners to manage their business processes and handle delivery orders placed through web and mobile apps.

- Core developer of the Rails backend, as well as 3 frontend apps built with Ember.js and CoffeeScript
- Released an internal UI kit
- Wrote API documentation for the developer portal
- Managed a team of three developers, and successfully integrated several critical subcomponents

Tech stack: Ember.js / Ember.Data, Ruby on Rails, PhoneGap / Cordova, React Native, Node.js, CoffeeScript

Lead Full-Stack Engineer

Ficus was an app for creating online slides with real-time polls and instant feedback from the audience that we built during a hackathon.

- Won the first prize at the hackathon and received funding from a local startup accelerator (IIDF) and Microsoft.
- Worked on pitch decks, conducted market research, made investor pitches.
- Designed and developed real-time widgets, including polls (built with D3 and React) and the presentation rating screen using Canvas API.

Though the web app is no longer available, the embeddable polling widgets are open-sourced and can be imported via an ESM module.

https://ficus.io/

Co-Founder

I ran my own consultancy, where we helped startups quickly launch and scale their products. I worked directly with founding teams to build and ship web apps fast.

Web Engineering Consultant

Advisor

Fira (YC W25) is an agentic AI financial analyst, built to streamline financial research at investment firms (PE/investment banks/VCs)

Founder, Chief Technology Officer

generalist design engineer / founder / YC alum

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