Michal Gondar
Experience
- Appio
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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
- Mews
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Director of Engineering
- Mews is a hospitality unicorn providing hotel management software
- I was in charge of Mews POS
- Arithmix
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Head of Engineering
- Brought in to improve and scale-up the engineering team
- The company did not manage to raise future funding
- Paddle
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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
- HawkFlow
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Co-founder and Advisor
- AI-powered monitoring
- Zákon & Pořádek s.r.o.
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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
- Musstard
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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
- AOL / GoViral
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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
- Live Nation Entertainment / Ticketmaster
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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
- Other companies
- Various tech jobs Past → Feb 2009