Serge Ivo
Head Of Engineering at Rocket Lab Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolSerge Ivo is a Head of Engineering and founder with 20+ years of hands-on full-stack and delivery leadership, now based in Melbourne, who excels at turning early ideas into reliable, production-grade products. He thrives in startup and greenfield environments, balancing rapid iteration with architecture, CI/CD, and cost-aware cloud data design—most recently scaling JavaScript/TypeScript systems and automation-heavy workflows. Serge pairs deep technical involvement on critical paths with building high-trust teams, practical engineering standards, and predictable delivery rhythms. He has driven product and technical strategy across fintech, AML, fraud-detection, and market-facing platforms, repeatedly shipping MVPs ahead of schedule and under budget. Beyond corporate roles he founded community-driven initiatives (BetaBuilders, SeedStart, JobSearch.Works) that match volunteer talent to founders, demonstrating a knack for aligning scarce resources to real user outcomes. His background blends enterprise program leadership with startup grit, making him effective both as a hands-on architect and as a leader scaling engineering capability.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Software Engineering, Software Development, Diploma of Software Engineering, Software Development at Saint Petersburg University, Russia
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Github Skills (2)
python-functions5
gpt1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amlcloud/screensrv
Jan 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:64 reviews, 32 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 4 months
amlcloud/seeder
Aug 2022 - May 2025
Contributions:64 reviews, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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