Summary
Andrej Guran is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performance teams and products across startups and large platforms. He has led cross-functional engineering organisations from early-stage builds—securing $1M VC funding as CTO/co-founder of Rejoy—to driving platform partnerships and commerce integrations at Meta. At GoCardless he tripled team velocity, established governance across ten teams, and is now leading AI adoption focused on engineering efficiency and product enablement. Andrej combines hands-on delivery (initial app built in React Native, robust AI testing platform, modular payment systems) with strategic fundraising and GTM collaboration that drove measurable revenue uplift. He’s pragmatic about shipping, observability, and retention—Rejoy achieved 4x industry retention and 3x subscription conversion while growing >10% MoM. Based in Stony Stratford, he blends startup grit with enterprise-scale partner engineering to turn complex systems into reliable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree in, Computer Science at Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Social Studies
English, German, Slovak, Czech