Gene Sluder is a seasoned technology leader and founder with two decades of engineering experience and a decade-plus of building and scaling teams across startups, fintech, edtech, SaaS, and digital agencies. He has a proven track record of founding and running engineering operations from the ground up, managing distributed teams of 50+ engineers, and delivering enterprise products for Fortune 500 clients. Comfortable both as an architect and hands-on developer, Gene has rescued failing projects, led major platform migrations, and designed go-to-market prototypes that secured investor buy-in. Noteworthy projects include an OTA platform now integrated with major channel managers and rebuilding long-lived edtech forums that enabled strategic exits. Based in Niš, Serbia, he blends rigorous analytical training in physics with practical product and budget planning, often producing investor-ready technical roadmaps and multi-year team growth plans.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Associate of Science, Physics, Associate of Science, Physics at San Diego Mesa College
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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