Summary
Ari Kardasis is a technical lead and seasoned founder with 14 years of experience building product-grade software, teams, and companies across gaming, crypto, and cloud platforms. He combines hands-on front-end craft—shaping visual polish, responsiveness and “jiggle and pop” in high‑engagement apps—with backend architecture and infrastructure design. Ari has led engineering orgs from startup scrappy teams to 30+ staff and raised funding as a CTO/founder, and has navigated roles at AWS and fast‑moving startups where rapid iteration and product learning were paramount. His background in architecture and computational design (MIT, Princeton, Brown) informs a pragmatic aesthetic sensibility that shows up in UX, incentive systems, and performance tuning. Notably, he shipped a #1 iOS game with 30M+ downloads and built a crypto exchange proof‑of‑concept that scaled into a funded company, demonstrating both product intuition and technical stewardship. Based in New York, he blends entrepreneurial breadth with deep attention to code quality and user experience.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Brown University
SMArchS, Computation and Design, SMArchS, Computation and Design at M.I.T.
Master of Architecture - MArch, Architecture, Master of Architecture - MArch, Architecture at Princeton University