Ivan Cernja
Growth at Encore
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Cernja is a growth leader with 10+ years of experience scaling developer tools, platforms, and product-led startups across Europe and YC-backed companies. Currently on the Encore growth team and building at @encoredev, he blends product management and hands-on growth tactics to turn developer-first products into repeatable acquisition channels. He has led growth at shuttle (YC S21), supported multiple YC companies as a growth partner, and co-founded a startup, giving him both operator and founder perspectives. Comfortable with technical product work from a computer science background and early front-end roots, he often bridges engineering and GTM teams to ship measurable impact. Based in Austria, he brings a mix of agency, startup, and platform experience that favors pragmatic experimentation over vanity metrics.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
English, German, Italian, Croatian, Spanish
Github Skills (49)
rust-lang10
tower10
docker10
rust10
paas10
devops10
discord9
cargo9
isomorphic9
discord-bot9
shuttle9
infrastructure9
web-framework8
api8
dom8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ivancernja/www
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 PRs, 21 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 9 months
ivancernja/shuttle
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Deploy Rust apps with a single Cargo command
Contributions:31 pushes, 15 branches in 7 months
rustcargodockerrust-appsrust-language
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