Michal Gondar

Experience

Appio

Founder

• Appio enables businesses to add mobile features like push notifications and widgets across iOS devices, without the hassle of building or managing custom apps. Appio simplifies user onboarding, authentication, and mobile engagement, bridging the gaps in web technologies.
• B2B SAAS

Oct 2024 → present, UK & Remote

Mews

Director of Engineering

• Mews is a hospitality unicorn providing hotel management software
• I was in charge of Mews POS

Jun 2023 → Oct 2024 • 1 yr 5 mos, UK & Remote

Arithmix

Head of Engineering

• Brought in to improve and scale-up the engineering team
• The company did not manage to raise future funding

Jan 2023 → May 2023 • 5 mos, London UK & Remote

Paddle

Director of Engineering

• Paddle is a SAAS fintech unicorn providing a complete payment, tax, invoicing and subscription solution
• Member of the company-wide extended leadership
• Designing and influencing tech/company-wide processes like hiring, onboarding, and career development
• I managed 6 cross-functional product teams covering all products developed at Paddle
• Scaling rapidly growing organisation: doubling P&E department and implementing new processes
• Serving B2B SMB and enterprise customers
• Managed teams and processes through the merger and acquisition of ProfitWell
• Hired, managed and led the team that implemented Paddle's iOS In-App Purchase solution

Feb 2021 → Dec 2022 • 1 yr 11 mos, London UK & Remote

HawkFlow

Co-founder and Advisor

• AI-powered monitoring

Jan 2021 → present, London UK & Remote

Zákon & Pořádek s.r.o.

Technical co-founder and CTO/CPO

• Acted as a technical and product leader, also responsible for R&D
• Involved in all aspects of the business including marketing, sales, customer support
• Built and scaled a SaaS company into an industry leader in a newly created market
• Designed and developed core system architecture focused on collecting, processing and monitoring data
• Assembled, mentored and managed a fully remote team

Jul 2013 → Dec 2020 • 7 yrs 6 mos, Prague Czechia & Remote

Musstard

Technical co-founder and CTO

• Developed a business plan, actively participate in fundraising, conduct technical interviews
• Developed e-commerce retail platform based on Magento for fashion start-up
• Implemented custom Magento extensions and modifications to fulfill business needs (multiple warehouse functionality, ajax shopping cart, gift vouchers based on custom rules)
• Designed and maintained infrastructure running on AWS
• Technologies: Magento, Varnish cache, Solr search, Apache, MySQL

Nov 2011 → Jul 2013 • 1 yr 9 mos, Sydney Australia

AOL / GoViral

Senior → Principal Software Engineer

• Developed HTML5 video player for Goviral video advertising platform
• Introduced BDD methodology
• Worked as a member of the core engineering team developing features for internal systems
• Integral part of the Goviral start-up culture prior to its acquisition by AOL

Jun 2011 → Feb 2012 • 9 mos, London UK

Live Nation Entertainment / Ticketmaster

Lead Frontend Engineer

• Lead Frontend Engineer for www.livenation.co.uk and its 17 additional language mutations
• Redesigning Ticketmaster checkout system
• Worked as part of agile development team
• Implemented facebook XFBML
• Prototyped the first ever mobile application for LiveNation festivals

Feb 2009 → May 2011 • 2 yrs 3 mos, London UK

Other companies

Various tech jobs Past → Feb 2009

Projects