Vadim Kravcenko

👋 About me

I want to share my experience building products with the next generation of CTOs and founders.

Vadim Kravcenko

Open-Source

I've written several popular Python and Go libraries with 5'000+ stars on github.

Blog & Newlsetter

30'000 Readers each month visit this blog and read the newsletter.

Technical Advisor

I advise startups to scale their development and solve their engineering bottlenecks.

5+ Years as CTO

I've been leading development and responsible for bringing to life many different products over the years.

  1. 👾

    Freelancing

    I was very active on freelancing websites and coding mostly in PHP and Javascript back then. I've written different kinds of apps — custom CMS, social monitoring tools, plugins for wordpress, payment integrations, etc. I've gained quite a lot of experience back then and also found ways how NOT to build software.

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    Building my own apps

    I've switched to Python at this point and also started doing iOS and Android Development. Writing several apps for myself that I thought would be fun to have — anonymous messaging app, reservation tool for dentists/hairdressers.

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    Became more active in open source.

    During this time I've authored pipreqs, gojenkins, and more

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    Moved to Switzerland from Germany, started as a CTO at a swiss startup

    I was hired as a Senior Software Engineer and then took over the position of the CTO and continued leading the development at the company. We were developing a marketing loyalty software for big brands to gather leads and upsell more products. The core concept was connecting offline sales with online promotions.

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    Co-founded mindnow — the Digital Innovation Hub

    With my friends and partners we decided to establish a new digital agency to build complex products for clients and then evolve into an innovation hub to release our own spinoffs.

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    We're growing

    We grew the agency from 3 to 50 employees and many successfully finished products.

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    Expanding mindnow, investing in other areas

    We've established ourselves as a trusted partner to many new clients over the last 2 years and have increased the complexity of the products we can deliver. The journey continues and we're expanding to new markets and doing more spinoffs from our digital incubator.

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    Growing, Growing, Growing

    The vision for the future is to move on from being a digital agency to being a startup incubator completely — basically having multiple startup teams inside the company that are each building their own software venture.