Alexey Taktarov
Founder at ficus.io
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Taktarov is a serial founder and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-growth web products and developer-friendly tooling from Copenhagen. He co-founded and scaled Resume.io from launch to 45M users and exited to Talent Inc., then led product and platform engineering while driving localisation, payments, and a browser PDF rendering engine at scale. More recently he founded Fira (YC W25), an agentic AI financial analyst, and now builds Ficus.io — a real-time multiplayer audience engagement platform — combining product instincts with hands-on engineering. An active open-source maintainer and conference speaker, he contributed core routing and SSR/CSR support to the popular minimalist wouter router, reflecting his frontend depth. Known for shipping pragmatic, measurable engineering practices (A/B ownership, metrics-driven teams) and winning multiple hackathons, he blends startup grit with technical craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
W25 Alumni, W25 Alumni at Y CombinatorMaster's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)Exchange Student, Intelligent and Embedded Systems, Exchange Student, Intelligent and Embedded Systems at Halmstad University
Русский, Английский
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Github Skills (14)
preact10
router10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react-router10
react-hooks10
react10
typescript-types10
routers10
nodejs6
automation6
ntlm6
server6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
molefrog/wouter
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
🥢 A minimalist-friendly ~2.1KB routing for React and Preact
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 175 reviews, 315 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to the development of the routing functionality within the `wouter` library, which is a minimalist routing solution for React and Preact. Their work involved implementing the core components such as `<Router>`, `<Route>`, and `<Link>`, along with the underlying matching logic. Furthermore, the user added support for history management, including both in-memory and browser-based history, and integrated features such as Switch and Redirect. The user also ensured that components function correctly for both server-side rendering (SSR) and client-side rendering (CSR).
microlibraryreactminimalistreact-hooksrouting
molefrog/molefrog.com
May 2013 - Jan 2023
👨🏻💻 My Personal Homepage
Contributions:1 review, 104 commits, 19 PRs in 9 years 9 months
gatsbyreacttailwindcsspersonal-homepagenextjs
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