Edgars Kohs
Chief Technology Officer & Founder at Vuelo
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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SeniorEdgars Kohs is a founder and CTO with over a decade of experience building and scaling cloud-native payments platforms across the UK, EU and US, focused on consumer credit, BNPL and travel payments. He led Fly Now Pay Later from product inception to acquisition, architecting multi-market, compliant systems that served hundreds of thousands of customers and integrated with major global payment networks. Comfortable at the intersection of engineering and commercial strategy, he repeatedly aligns technical roadmaps with fast market expansion while maintaining security, stability and regulatory compliance. As a founder, advisor and board member he helps institutionally backed fintechs operationalise scalable lending and payment products with minimal IT overhead. Now at Vuelo he’s applying AI to make travel finance more flexible and accessible, blending hands-on architecture skills with product-led growth. An operator who still ships code, he brings rare end-to-end experience from systems administration to leading global engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (66)
jquery-plugin10
laravel10
datetimepicker10
php10
laravel-framework10
timepicker9
jquery9
datepicker9
jquery-ui9
wkhtmltopdf8
testing7
indexeddb7
javascript7
storage7
html-to-pdf7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cownet/laravel-uuid
Sep 2018 - Apr 2023
Laravel extension for UUID use in model.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
nanoidphpguidlaraveluuid
kodols/php-mysql-library
Jan 2017 - May 2019
Simple MySQL library for PHP 5.4+ includes Query Builder, PDO Native functions, Helper functions for quick use.
Contributions:24 releases, 52 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 3 months
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