Yarik Graf
Founder & CEO at Spread Global
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolYarik Graf is a product-driven startup founder and CEO with 8 years of experience and five ventures—two exits—specializing in building and scaling mobile apps and backend platforms from MVP to hundreds of thousands of users. He combines strong product vision, user empathy, and hands-on execution, having led cross-functional teams, raised VC funding, and negotiated acquisitions across fintech, edtech, and foodtech. Notable outcomes include scaling an ordering app to 10K+ monthly orders and growing a brokerage API platform to support 2M+ trades per month before acquisition. Comfortable in early- and growth-stage environments, he pairs technical insight with commercial rigor—driving revenue lifts, streamlined UX flows, and rapid go-to-market launches. Unusually for a founder profile, he also brings formal finance and research depth as a PhD candidate in financial markets, which informs his data-driven product and monetization decisions. Currently open to full-time product leadership roles where speed, ownership, and strategic pivots matter.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Securities, Master of Science - MS Securities at Saint Petersburg State University of Finance and EconomicsStartup School OnlinePhD Candidate in Financial Markets (All But Dissertation) Investments and Securities, PhD Candidate in Financial Markets (All But Dissertation) Investments and Securities at Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Github Skills (4)
dom7
kotlin6
javascript6
typescript3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BreakChir/Algo
Feb 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
BreakChir/translation-methods
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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