Anton Puzorjov
Founder & CEO at Quas Drinks
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAnton Puzorjov is a biotech-trained entrepreneur and founder-CEO with 11 years of experience translating synthetic biology and fermentation science into award-winning consumer products. After a PhD in Synthetic Biology from the University of Edinburgh, he built Quas—a Great Taste Award-winning kvass—using a proprietary 180-year-old sourdough culture to deliver postbiotic compounds and high prebiotic fibre in a shelf-stable beverage. He combines hands-on lab scale-up (GC-MS, bioreactors, strain engineering) with e-commerce and go-to-market experience, having grown startups, led product teams, and optimised Amazon storefronts. Anton has a track record of securing funding, publishing first-author research, and turning academic proof-of-concept work into commercial scale production. He is unusually focused on microbiome-first nutrition and circular-economy tech that upcycles bread waste into premium drinks. Based in Edinburgh, he blends rigorous scientific rigour with product-led growth and a clear taste for building tangible, impact-driven businesses.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Synthetic Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Synthetic Biology at The University of EdinburghLasnamäe Gümnaasium
English, Estonian, German, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (45)
perplexity9
speech-to-text9
poe9
copilot8
github-copilot8
whisper8
grok8
browser7
application7
speech-recognition7
transformer6
cpp6
macos6
openai6
windows6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
csynbiosys/iGEM-Phage-Modelling
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:62 commits, 70 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
Macbit/Edinburgh_OG_iGEM17
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:57 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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