Oleksandr Kosovan
Founder & CEO at SMRK VC Fund
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolOleksandr Kosovan is the founder and CEO of MacPaw, the Kyiv-based software company behind CleanMyMac, Setapp, ClearVPN and other macOS/iOS utilities used by over 30 million people worldwide. Since founding MacPaw in 2008 he has scaled the company from a small engineering team into one of the leading players in the Mac ecosystem, combining product-led design with a focus on security through initiatives like the Moonlock division. He also co-founded SMRK, a venture fund backing Ukrainian hardware and software startups such as AJAX and Preply, and helps shape Ukraine’s tech policy and entrepreneur networks through CEO Club Ukraine and Diia.City United. With a master’s in computer science and early roots as a Unix systems administrator, he brings hands-on technical experience to strategic leadership, blending engineering depth with investor and community-building instincts. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate consumer product telemetry into long-term platform businesses that sustain both growth and ecosystem impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, French, Ukrainian
Github Skills (200)
tiles10
material-ui10
svg10
3d10
browser10
mapbox-gl-js10
css10
user-interface10
javascript-animation10
rollupjs10
map-tiles10
frontend10
declarative10
webapp10
compiler10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
korywka/eslint-config-ecmascript
Nov 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:16 releases, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
korywka/native-gallery
May 2020 - Sep 2021
native image gallery in ~100 lines of code
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
imagelinescarouselnative-imagein-gallery
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