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Nicholas Ecton
Startup Developer
Nick is a self-taught full-stack developer with over eight years of experience leading engineering teams and developing software for startups. His talents and passions have always aligned with the fast-paced, do-it-yourself mindset of early startup culture. His most recent success includes onboarding as a founding engineer for an iGaming startup and growing the company to over 40 employees and 10 million+ revenue/year within two years of his joining.

Dan Collingridge
Startup Developer
Dan is a tech professional with a wealth of development experience from small startups to large companies. He's not only a talented full-stack developer (MEAN, LAMP, and more), but he has the business knowledge and personality to impact your projects from end-to-end. Dan pays extremely close attention to detail, is able to think through difficult issues, and you won't find anyone who is a better communicator.

Sagi Lefler
Startup Developer
Sagi is a full-stack software engineer with 20 years of experience, specializing in cloud-based, customer-facing web applications over the past decade. He has worked in small startups, such as Sintra and Behalf; large enterprises, such as SAP; and applied Agile methodologies within scrum teams. Sagi is equally effective in remote and on-site environments. He is a fast learner, an excellent communicator, independent, and used to working in a changing environment.

Piotr Poznanski
Startup Developer
Piotr is a software developer, architect, and technical lead with 23+ years of experience working with CERN, Motorola Solutions, universities, and startups. He has led projects, served as CTO, a scrum master, and developed and delivered complex web and mobile solutions, including business and technical requirements, architecture, 3rd-party API integrations, data acquisition, and processing for BI. Piotr co-developed the pan configuration language and has a PhD in computer science.

David Dai
Startup Developer
David has extensive experience in building machine learning and deep learning (DL) solutions at top companies, including Apple, Google, and Facebook, unicorn startups, and academia, as he has a PhD from Carnegie Mellon U. He holds multiple patents in DL-based medical imaging tech and large-scale AI systems. David has grown an AI team to 60+ as the director and tech lead.

Bill Martschenko
Startup Developer
Bill is a veteran, hands-on CTO who presents quickly as a thought leader with executive presence. He can speak plain English to all sides of an organization, including investors and a BoD. His work includes seven startups. Add his fractional CTO and consulting roles, and his portfolio sits at 11 large enterprises and nine SMBs under $100M/year, covering digital transformation, disruptive innovation, rescuing technical debt, and explosive growth in both regulated and non-regulated industries.

Eran Tenenboim
Startup Developer
Eran is an accomplished software engineer and team leader with two decades of experience serving a wide range of companies, from startups to global banks. He is an expert in server-side programming, low-latency systems, algorithmic trading, and database development and has extensive know-how in the full lifecycle of the software design process. A strategic thinker, Eran can take a bird's-eye view and narrow it down to the smallest of details.

Brian Díaz
Startup Developer
Brian is an innovative developer and a problem solver. He has 8+ years of experience developing web back- and front-end services in various domains and with diverse tech stacks for startups and medium and large companies. Experienced in working with fast-moving teams and fixed deadlines, Brian is proficient in different methodologies and technologies, allowing him to learn and quickly adapt to new working environments.

Ivan Itzcovich
Startup Developer
From Microsoft headquarters to co-founding its own startup, Ivan has worked in diverse scenarios where he learned the tradeoffs between stability and speed. He understands how to use appropriate engineering practices depending on each company's technical needs, whether building robustness for production or hitting the gas for validation. Ivan has strong machine learning experience in production, identifying its challenges as engineering-first quests.

Tim Langseth
Startup Developer
Tim has over 20 years of software development experience. He also spent 15+ years working freelance for various-sized companies, from large organizations and enterprises to startups that needed him to bring their idea to reality. He specializes in ASP.NET, .NET, C#, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), MySQL, and Python. Tim's robust background allows him to ramp up on projects of all sizes quickly and efficiently.

Timothy Mensch
Startup Developer
Tim is a senior software architect/engineer generalist. He has built the technology stack for multiple startups from the ground up. Tim also has experience rescuing projects and turning train wrecks into successful launches. He has worked in many domains, including retail, banking, the Internet of Things, high-performance servers, machine learning, gamification, and scalable application server design. He has worked with cloud servers from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

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