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

Transforming QA Practice in the AI Era

On the first Thursday of November, we will discuss how technical leaders are transforming QA practices — from a routine function to a strategic engineering catalyst in the era of artificial intelligence.

November 6
Vira Tkachenko
CTIO and co-founder @ MacPaw
Maryna Didkovska
Director of Software Engineering @ EPAM
Yana Mykhailenko
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin

Meetup #22

Full information about the meetup will appear here soon.

December 4
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18:00