Summary
Hugo Dutka is a product-focused software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building developer tools, web platforms, and blockchain products. He co-founded Hocus, a self-hosted alternative to GitHub Codespaces that earned 3,000+ GitHub stars and multiple Hacker News front-page features, and now contributes to open-source infrastructure at Coder. As a former CTO, he led a 15-engineer team delivering blockchain services to over 200,000 users, and earlier launched Poland’s largest high-school learning platform as its sole founding engineer. Hugo blends hands-on engineering with product instincts—comfortable shipping client-facing apps, backend systems, and developer tooling—and has a track record of turning small projects (from games to trading bots) into widely used products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Warsaw