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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.

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.

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.

Ben Carey
Startup Developer
Ben is a CTO and senior engineer with over 20 years of experience leading high-growth startups and enterprise platforms. He’s an expert in Laravel, AWS, and AI automation, with a strong track record of rebuilding core architectures, scaling complex systems, and driving product-led engineering strategies. Ben is known for driving product-led innovation, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and building high-performance teams that deliver measurable impact.

Vadim Kovrigin
Startup Developer
Vadim has 14 years of experience in web development and ten years in Python and Django. Over the last five years, he has led teams of up to ten developers and QA. Vadim enjoys working with startups and has been involved in 40 projects, including an ICO platform, an online document signing service, and online learning.

Krishna Sai Prithvi Guntur
Startup Developer
Prithvi is a full-stack developer interested in machine learning and DevOps who loves to automate any process, whether customer-facing or internal utilities. He has 8+ years of software development experience, mainly in Django and Python, along with a mix of front-end frameworks like React, Vue, and React Native. With a history of working in the healthcare industry, Prithvi has operated on many complex back-end systems and brings extensive experience creating web applications.

Dhruvinkumar Pipalia
Startup Developer
Dhruvin is a senior full-stack developer with 7+ years of experience working with several international, early-stage startups in multiple industries. He specializes in building web and mobile applications from scratch by working closely with co-founders and using various technologies, frameworks, and tools. Dhruvin holds a master's degree in computer science.

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