Michal Gondar
Experience
- Appio
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Solo Founder and CEO
Appio is the easiest way to offer mobile features without building mobile apps.
Try it!- Built the entire B2B SaaS product end-to-end, from ideation and engineering through to marketing, GTM, and sales
- Applied modern AI toolchains in production environments
- Spent 3 weeks in Silicon Valley connecting and promoting the product as part of a Scottish Government startup program
- Mews
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Director of Engineering
- Mews is a hospitality unicorn providing hotel management software
- Took ownership of Mews POS, the company's earliset M&A product, leading a team of ~20
- Upscaled and aligned the acquired team with the wider engineering organisation
- Partnered closely with Product and Sales to redefine the POS strategy and roadmap
- Maintained knowledge continuity through the post-acquisition transition
- Responsible for hiring and growing the team
- Arithmix
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Head of Engineering
- Brought in to level up the engineering team (~30) and prepare the organisation for its next growth phase
- Worked closely with the CEO to define product direction and hiring strategy
- 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
- Scaled a 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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Co-Founder and CTO/CPO
- Acted as a technical and product leader while contributing to sales, GTM, and marketing strategy across all business functions
- 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 for collecting, scraping, processing and monitoring data
- Assembled, mentored and managed a fully remote team
- Musstard
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Co-Founder and CTO
- Developed a business plan, actively participated 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