Danny Chepenko is a data-driven founder and growth operator with a decade of experience building product-led SaaS and analytics platforms across startups and large tech firms. He co-founded and scaled SpatialChat to multi-million ARR through founder-led sales, product monetization and a lean analytics stack he architected from scratch, and now builds data × GTM tooling at Extruct AI. His background spans recommender systems and production data engineering at Yahoo! JAPAN and leadership programs at SoftBank, plus corporate VC experience at inDrive—an uncommon mix of hands-on ML/data engineering, GTM, and investing. A multilingual engineer educated at HKUST with formal training from Reforge and Harvard Online, he’s also candid about a past startup failure, which informs his pragmatic, repeat-founder playbook.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Disruptive innovation, Disruptive innovation at Harvard Business School Online
Магистр Software Engineering, Магистр Software Engineering at Higher School of Economics
iOS Development, iOS Development at Tinkoff Fintech School
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Fluid mechanics, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Fluid mechanics at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
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