Summary
Eugene Yaroslavtsev is a CEO and engineering leader based in Tokyo, currently heading Foundation after years of scaling teams and products at MeetsMore and startups. At Uber he helped make upfront pricing a global standard, singlehandedly launched v1 of Uber One, and worked with David Plouffe to navigate legalization in all 50 states. He pairs hands-on product engineering—from founding Logiblock and shipping a browser-based IDE and rapid Kickstarter scraper to building a hardware emulator that automated 90% of QA—with pragmatic architectural judgment. A Y Combinator alumnus with Berkeley roots, he hires and mentors engineers to grow without burning out and focuses on building reliable, scalable systems that stand up to rapid change.
7 years of coding experience