February 9, 2022

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How to become great CTO in startup

2025

Ukraine

🧩 Being a good developer isn’t enough to launch your own startup.

This meetup offered a behind-the-scenes look at technical entrepreneurship, where the main role isn’t just writing code — it’s about building the product, the team, and the value.

During the meetup, we discussed:

  • How a technical background can help — or hinder — startup development
  • Why even failure is a step toward a successful launch
  • What skills do you need to develop to become the ‘tech co-founder’ everyone’s looking for

The speakers shared their real-life experiences of building startups as technical co-founders — juggling architecture, team building, business models, and keeping the project alive.

This meetup was an honest conversation about first steps, internal doubts, and why “failing” is okay — as long as you tried.

Meetup speakers

Speaker
Artem Melnychenko

CTO @ Wantent

Artem started as a developer at an ambitious Ukrainian startup. Now he works as CTO at Wantent, a consumer analytics company developing an AI-powered reaction recognition platform.

Speaker
Volodymyr Sveredyuk

CTO @ DEV Challenge

Volodymyr developed the platform and service station of DEV Challenge, the largest IT competition in Europe. He also has experience in launching more than 35 IT projects and holds the position of CEO at KERUJ and CTO at KESETECH.

Upcoming events

Business Security Strategies

In the first summer evenings, the 19th meetup of the series will take place, where technical leaders will discuss cybersecurity in business and product development.

June 5, 2025
Serhii Khariuk

CEO and Founder @AmonSul

Trokhym Babych

Coordinator of the Cyber Security Program at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

AI Implementation

Over the May holidays, tech leaders will meet to talk about how they are implementing AI in development and business processes.

May 29, 2025
Sergii Kozyrev

Founder @ Stealth AI Startup, @ XSight

Yana Mykhailenko

Director of Engineering @ Turnitin

Conference | How to Become Great CTO

In the last days of July, DEV Challenge, in collaboration with UNIT.City, will bring together Ukraine’s tech leaders, entrepreneurs, company and startup founders, CTOs and managers to discuss the most pressing and essential topics in technology, business, and leadership.

31 July
Оffline
150 seats