Vitaly Pushkar
Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth AI Startup
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVitaly Pushkar is a seasoned engineer and operator with 14 years of hands-on experience and 16+ years building complex software and leading high-performing teams, now serving as Co-Founder & CTO of a stealth AI startup in Berlin. He combines deep technical execution—from Ruby/Rails beginnings through staff and engineering manager roles at Zendesk and fintech-grade systems at solarisBank—with a pragmatic, outcome-focused leadership style. Vitaly is known for scaling both systems and people via adaptable, servant leadership while maintaining a high bar for quality and delivery. His career spans startups and scale-ups, shipping production services across adtech, fintech, marketplaces and customer support platforms. Notably pragmatic, he lives by a bias-for-action—“the best thing you can do is the right thing… the worst is nothing”—which shows in rapid iteration and decisive engineering trade-offs. He holds a master’s in Computer Programming and brings an entrepreneurial mindset from early co-ownership and consulting roles to building AI-first products.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Programming, Master's degree Computer Programming at Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas
English, German
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Github Skills (57)
concurrent10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
kafka-consumer10
continuation9
asynchronous9
emacs-lisp9
playing9
raii9
functional-programming9
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concurrent-programming8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vitaly-pushkar/vitaly-pushkar
Jul 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
lviv-rug/rbflow
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:17 commits in 11 days
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