Vlad Shostak
Chief Technology Officer at Garfinkel Group, LLC
Greater Fayetteville, AR Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Shostak is a technology leader and founder with a decade of experience building product-driven engineering organizations and shipping full-stack software. He currently serves as CTO at Garfinkel Group while simultaneously founding and leading Novastone AI, demonstrating a blend of strategic leadership and hands-on execution. His background spans founding startups (TeacherToolsGPT, Techonic), leading engineering teams at J.B. Hunt where he cut onboarding time dramatically, and driving full-stack and tech lead roles at AI-focused startups. Vlad pairs an MBA in Entrepreneurship with a Computer Science foundation, enabling him to align go-to-market strategy, customer discovery, and technical roadmaps—a combination that helped him exit a product via Flippa. Notably, he moves fluidly between coaching engineers and owning product outcomes, making him effective at scaling teams and turning customer insight into production software.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics at Hunter CollegeMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of Arkansas - Sam M. Walton College of Business
Github Skills (23)
git9
flask8
github8
chat8
react-native7
python7
lexical6
rest-api6
angular6
aws6
rest6
ios5
markdown4
material-design4
react4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VeeShostak/Multithreading-Parallel-Computing
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
VeeShostak/Cpp11-FromControlStructuresToObjects8thEd-byTonyGaddis
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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