Egor Khmelev
CTO, Co-founder at Sweatcoin
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolEgor Khmelev is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 14 years of experience building and scaling consumer mobile products, currently serving as CTO and Co-founder of Sweatcoin — a Top 10 global health app with 120M+ users that turned movement into a digital currency and materially increased user activity. He blends product-led engineering, mobile and front-end expertise, and marketplace design to deliver measurable behavior-change outcomes (notably NHS trials and published research) while guiding a profitable, high-growth health‑tech business. Prior to Sweatcoin he co-founded multiple startups across mobile, media and crowdsourcing, and earlier in his career contributed pragmatic front-end work such as the jslider jQuery plugin maintenance and modernization. Based in Lisbon with engineering training and a London CS degree, he combines hands-on technical depth with strategic product vision and a knack for turning real-world incentives into scalable digital experiences.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Higher education, Engineering department, Higher education, Engineering department at Volgograd State Technical UniversityFoundation, Graphic design, Product design, Foundation, Graphic design, Product design at British Higher School of Art and DesignBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of London
English, Russian, Portuguese
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
jquery10
licensing9
css8
html8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
egorkhmelev/jslider
Nov 2011 - Apr 2016
jQuery Slider plugin (THIS PROJECT IS NOT MAINTAINED ANYMORE, READ BELOW FOR MORE INFO)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Egor primarily focused on the development and maintenance of the jQuery Slider plugin, making changes to the codebase and updating dependencies. Key contributions involved removing legacy code like IE6 CSS, refactoring the code, and updating the jQuery library to a newer version. The user also introduced the MIT license and addressed issue #1, demonstrating an understanding of project setup and bug fixes.
jqueryslidersjavascriptslidermore-info
sweatco/near-multisig-web
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 47 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 6 months
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