Miroslaw Shpak

CTO · Product engineer · Wrocław, Poland

Miroslaw Shpak

I build products from scratch. I design the architecture, write code and lead the team.

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01 · About

Hands-on CTO & product engineer

Some projects started with my own idea; on others, I led the technical side. I have a good eye for design and branding, and contribute to both. I lead teams and remain hands-on in development.

  • 11 yearsin commercial software, coding since 15
  • $13.75Mraised by projects I helped build
  • $30Mpeak TVL of a DeFi protocol based on my idea and architecture
  • 2 acquisitionscompanies I helped build, including one successful exit
  • 20 peoplelargest team I have led

02 · Stack

What I work with

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Solidity
  • Rust (favorite)
  • C/C++ from the good old days

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Bun
  • NestJS
  • Hono
  • MongoDB (favorite)
  • PostgreSQL (favorite)
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ

Web3

  • EVM (favorite)
  • Foundry
  • viem / wagmi
  • ERC-4337
  • Chainlink
  • Solana
  • BRC-20 / Ordinals
  • TON

Frontend & 3D

  • React / Next.js
  • Vue / Nuxt (favorite)
  • Three.js
  • GLSL (favorite)
  • Unity
  • Unreal Engine

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes (favorite)
  • Helm
  • werf
  • ArgoCD
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS
  • GCP

AI

  • PI (favorite)
  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • MCP
  • Tool calling
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • RAG

03 · How I work

How I work

  1. 01

    From idea to launch

    I originated the idea and designed the architecture for a non-custodial yield protocol, then built its contracts, backend and offchain automation in a three-person team. I also contributed to product design and community engagement.

  2. 02

    Small teams, full products

    Three programmers built the onchain betting platform. As CTO, I designed the architecture, wrote the entire backend and led the team.

  3. 03

    Agents in production

    I built AI agents for risk monitoring and complex bet settlement. I also built tools that let business teams get data without asking developers, and used an agent to flag production issues.

Giterminism and transparency cultist.

04 · Career

Career orbit

  1. · Remote

    CTO & Co-founder

    Crypto Venture Studio (NDA)

    A venture group building betting, exchange, DeFi and infrastructure products. Hands-on CTO, with product ideas, design and community engagement on selected projects.

    • Onchain DFS betting: CTO and architect. Wrote the entire backend, relayer and risk/settlement agents. The project raised $2.5M.
    • Non-custodial yield protocol: my idea and architecture; wrote contracts, backend and automation. Three-person team, about $30M peak TVL, investment funds among users. The company was acquired.
    • BRC-20 / Ordinals exchange: co-developed the idea, designed the architecture and led the team. The project raised $8M.
    • AI swap chat (2023): Co-CTO for infrastructure, backend and model fine-tuning. About 1,000 DAU at peak.

    TypeScript, Solidity/Foundry, Rust, Next.js, Hono, MongoDB, Kubernetes

  2. · Odesa

    CTO

    World of Defish / Poolz Finance

    A DeFi/NFT game with a hybrid onchain/offchain economy. I designed the architecture from scratch when onchain games had few good examples, then built and led a 15-person team.

    • Shipped web and Unity games, an NFT marketplace, staking, a custom relayer and audited contracts.
    • Helped design the game economy and contributed to gameplay, design and branding. Worked with technical partners and represented the project to its community.
    • $3M raised, 30K users, about 1K weekly active, $500K+ TVL. The WOD token passed $10M in daily trading volume.
    • Delivered the roadmap through the crypto winter and the start of the war. World of Defish was acquired after almost two years.

    TypeScript/NestJS, Vue/Nuxt, React, Solidity/Hardhat, Three.js, GLSL, C#/Unity

  3. · Los Angeles

    Founder & CTO

    Shuttle Software

    My own studio building dApps, NFT and DeFi products for US clients. I built its 3D website from scratch, and this site grew out of it.

    • Also co-founded B2D (part-time, 2021): an outstaff platform for hiring, hourly billing and contracts. Still running.

    shuttlesoftware.com ↗

  4. · London, remote

    Technical Lead

    Smart Fertilizer (now IPNUK) / Yellow Brick Technologies

    Led an existing 20-person team modernizing a scientific agtech platform. Chose an API layer around a 25-year-old Visual Basic calculation core that could not be rewritten within the project. Designed a microservice architecture around the team's existing Vue/Laravel, .NET and Node.js skills.

    • Worked with scientists on soil analysis, sensor data and satellite imagery.

    ipnuk.com ↗

  5. · Odesa

    Head Software Architect (R&D)

    Coelix

    Systems for Israeli clients: Laravel apps that held peaks of 50K+ concurrent users after Instagram campaigns, Vue visual builders, React Native apps and the infrastructure. My first distributed systems, with a team of 5.

  6. · Odesa

    Full-stack Developer

    Quarnuts

    Systems for large Ukrainian companies on Vue, Laravel, WordPress and Drupal. Also C++ in Unreal Engine 4 for a VR apartment showroom for Foxtrot.

  7. · Odesa

    C/C++ and web developer

    Agroinvestgroup & freelance

    Started getting paid for code at 15. Six months of C/C++ for STM32 controllers in an agricultural sorting terminal, and freelance web work on WordPress, Drupal and Laravel.

  1. 2023
  2. 2021
  3. 2020
  4. 2019
  5. 2018
  6. 2016
  7. 2012

05 · Open source

Things I give away

My own setup: pi with PI-GPUI, mostly Claude for code and design, OpenAI for research and code review. Technical writing on dev.to and Hashnode as @bytesbay.

06 · Contact

Let's build something

Open to Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Tech Lead and hands-on CTO roles. Betting, Web3/DeFi and AI products first, fintech and SaaS too. Remote, hybrid or on-site, and open to relocation.

Based in Wrocław, Poland. Polish JDG for long-term B2B, full-time employment works as well.

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