Rob Konarskis is a founding builder and versatile software leader with 9 years of experience launching 10+ production products across embedded systems to cloud-native architectures, including multiple 7-figure profitable offerings. He combines hands-on engineering (from IoT and mobile to Kafka-based payments and high-throughput messaging gateways) with product-driven leadership as a CTO, co-founder, contractor and principal engineer. Currently based in Cyprus, he focuses on designing secure, performant and compliant systems for regulated industries and has a track record of forming lean, high-performing teams under both bootstrapped and VC-backed models. Notably, he helped build HSBC’s payments pipeline with Apache Kafka and contributed to foundations of a 75-person department at Backbase, reflecting both deep technical breadth and organizational impact.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Fontys University of Applied Sciences
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