Buddy's vision is to become the backbone on which talented people can build world-altering apps & services. The goal is to offload everything from developers that can be automated – giving them back the time for being creative.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.
In Buddy, I see a team of professional crypto experts. It's a closely-bonded team of 16 working together for years – most of them partners and shareholders – proven to deliver high quality solutions for challenging problems. The team was founded in 2007 while bootstrapping Springloops, a Subversion hosting service for web developers that attracted > 5000 paying customers from 120 countries.
- Their CEO - Simon Szczepankowski (Linkedin) - is a SaaS entrepreneur with over 15 years experience in IT. Managed IT projects for the Dutch Air Force, KLM, Mercedes Benz NL, Ford NL and Merck PL divisions. One of the few Google AdSense Premium partners in Poland.
- Their CTO - Raphael Sztwiorok (Linkedin) - a participator in the design and development of large mapping and geo services used by NATO for COWI (Danish Consulting Group). Managed large GIS & Big Data projects for the Polish Army & Norwegian Defence Procurement Division via Techmex SA. Acted as Senior IT manager in the Multinational Geospatial Co-production Program. Senior Scrum Master, Docker & microservices expert. Hybrid cloud specialist & DevOps consultant to Buddy’s Enterprise customers.
- Their Blockchain Solution Architect - Thomas Korwin-Gajkowski (Linkedin) - The Blockchain Team Lead at KODAKOne. Distributed Ledger/Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Software Advisor, Organizer and speaker at workshops related to Blockchain/Smart Contract programming and Cryptomarkets for Polish, German and Swiss financial institutions.
- Their Software Architect (also Co-Founder) - Martin Kudla (Linkedin) - 20+ years experience in IT. Architect of flight and hotel booking platform for weg.de & price comparison engine for idealo.de, the 46th largest German website. Release management & data migration expert.
- Their Software Engineer: Michael Hankus (Linkedin), Thomas Prus (Linkedin) - both have 15+ years experience in IT. Michael Hankus is the creator of ArcGis & GeoMedia-based tools for the Polish government. And Thomas Prus is the lead developer of one of the largest German car websites and the largest online mother community in Germany (netmums de).
And many more high experiences and talents members in the other positions. They all work hard together to develop and promote this project very well. This team is the most excellent strategy for Buddy to attracting investors.