Jānis Grīslis
Founder & CEO at Botsmit
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolJānis Grīslis is a serial founder and technology leader with 11 years of experience building web products and managing IT and project teams from Riga. He currently leads VerifX, an AI-driven platform combating deepfakes and content misuse, and serves as an investor in Botsmit, showing a blend of product, security and operational focus. Prior roles include founding and scaling web agencies and consumer startups, plus leading IT at Orange Sky Finance, which sharpened his skills in cross-border operations and regulated environments. He’s fluent in taking ideas from concept to market—handling product, client delivery and day-to-day execution himself. Not obvious from titles: his career spans both hands-on project management and strategic technical leadership, giving him a pragmatic edge in shipping reliable, secure digital services. Educated in electronic commerce, he pairs business-minded product thinking with technical delivery experience.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electronic Commerce, Bachelor, Electronic Commerce at RISEBA University of Business, Arts and Technology
English, Latvian, Russian
Github Skills (96)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LancasterSolutions/RSQueueBundle
Nov 2016 - Jul 2018
RSQueueBundle, a redis-based queue system for your Symfony2 projects
Contributions:16 releases, 25 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 8 months
redisphpsymfony-bundlesymfony2symfony
JanisGruzis/SshBundle
Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 35 commits, 33 pushes in 2 years
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