Summary
Tilek Mamutov is a founder and product leader with a decade of experience building engineering, business, and program teams, including 11 years at Google across Search, Gmail, YouTube and Chrome. He spent four years at Google X leading Project Loon’s business and a machine learning initiative that he revived and landed a seven-figure client for, demonstrating both technical savvy and scrappy program-building. As CEO of Outtalent (YC S19) he helps engineers in emerging markets land roles at top tech firms, with mentors from Google, Facebook, Apple and others and a pay-if-you-succeed model. He began his career as a developer and teacher in Central Asia, shipping web apps in C++, Python and JavaScript and creating Kyrgyzstan’s first Flash course. Tilek combines product strategy, cross-cultural market experience in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and hands-on engineering fluency to scale technical talent and teams. Based in Bishkek, he uniquely blends Big Tech operating experience with startup grit and a mission-driven approach to global talent mobility.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Bachelor of Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Software Engineering at American University of Central Asia (AUCA)
Russian, English, Kyrgyz