Summary
Stanislaw Smetanin is a CEO and seasoned web developer with 13 years of experience leading product teams and building high-load web projects from Moscow. He has progressed from hands-on roles—working with Symfony, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and LAMP stacks—to technical leadership positions including CTO and founding Presto Heads in 2016. Known for shipping pragmatic architecture and front-to-back development, he has led teams on notable projects like SocialTank and complex migrations between RDBMS systems. Stanislaw combines project management with deep implementation experience in templating, i18n and performance-focused frontends, which helps him translate business needs into maintainable codebases. His background shows a consistent focus on scaling legacy systems and improving code quality—an asset for companies modernizing web platforms.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian