Summary
Ivars Zubkans is a software engineer with 12 years of experience combining strong mathematics training with practical product-building across startups and large-scale platforms. He has spent the bulk of his career at Meta, where he progressed through engineering roles and continues to work on complex, production-grade systems. Earlier entrepreneurial work includes co-founding Cooligo and participating in Entrepreneur First, where he shipped Rails, Meteor.js/WebGL and mobile payment prototypes and explored automated math-marking via handwriting recognition. Comfortable across full stacks and research engineering, he has implemented graph algorithms in Neo4j/MySQL and built parametric 3D modelling tooling for on-demand manufacturing. Based in London, he brings an analytical, maker-oriented approach that blends academic rigor with hands-on shipping experience.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at University of St Andrews
Advanced Elementary Mathematics for high school students Mathematics, Advanced Elementary Mathematics for high school students Mathematics at Latvijas Universitate
High School General Education with emphasis on Mathematics, High School General Education with emphasis on Mathematics at Riga State Gymnasium No.1
English, Latvian, Russian, German