Summary
Ivan Shmidt is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder with 11+ years of experience building high-impact web and AI systems for companies like Spotify, Storytel, PayPal/Zettle and multiple startups. He blends deep full-stack craft—React/TypeScript, NodeJS, cloud-native architectures and LLM/Vector tooling—with org design, routinely shrinking lead time for change from weeks to a day and raising conversion metrics at scale. Ivan has shipped production AI features (an AI tutor with confidence scoring and Vector search proofs-of-concept) alongside large rebuilds for millions of users, showing both mathematical rigor and product sensibility. He excels at moving teams from silos to collaborative, full-stack units by pairing hands-on coding with process and platform improvements. As a Stockholm-based consultant and former tech lead, he favors pragmatic reductions in system complexity via SaaS and event-driven patterns while protecting team health. Notably, he combines engineering craftsmanship with a knack for operational playbooks that make rapid, reliable shipping repeatable.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete, Computer Software Engineering, Incomplete, Computer Software Engineering at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Russian, English, Swedish