Daniel Koudouna
Founder And CTO at Crowdbase
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Koudouna is a founder and CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience building fintech and AI-driven systems, currently leading the technical vision at Crowdbase, Cyprus’s first regulated investment-based crowdfunding platform. He brings a rare combination of deep academic research—completing a PhD in AI and language processing with computer vision at the University of St Andrews—and practical product delivery, having architected a platform that facilitated over €2M in investments. His background spans web scraping for complex data environments, OCR research for low-resource languages, and full-stack development, giving him a strong systems view across data, models, and user-facing services. Based in Edinburgh, he leverages domain expertise in financial instruments to bridge regulatory, product, and technical requirements in high-stakes fintech. Colleagues describe him as a continuous learner who turns academic insights into robust, production-ready solutions and applies AI not as a buzzword but as an engine for tangible business impact.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MSci, Computer Science, First Class Degree (Honours), MSci, Computer Science, First Class Degree (Honours) at University of St. AndrewsA Levels, A Levels at The English School, Nicosia
English, Greek, Japanese
Github Skills (74)
monitoring10
browser10
cypress-plugin10
org-mode10
nextjs10
react10
data-visualization9
compiler9
dashboard9
grafana9
image-viewer9
influxdb9
elasticsearch9
vercel9
mysql9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
daniel-koudouna/kiwi
Dec 2016 - May 2019
A lightweight image viewer
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 4 months
image-viewer
daniel-koudouna/cuda-bimp
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches, 4 tags in 2 years 4 months
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