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Product & Engineering Leader

Stanislau Kuryan

@stafox

I build products, scale engineering teams, and turn technical platforms into revenue.

Stanislau Kuryan

How I Help

14+ years of shipping software — from solo builds to leading a 14+ person department across product, mobile, backend, frontend, QA and delivery. I think in products, not just code: I connect business goals to technical decisions, from IAC's subscription app portfolio with 40M+ monthly users to my own bootstrapped apps and AI-native B2B products.

What I've Shipped

Expertise

AI-Native Products

AI-Assisted Development (Claude Code, Codex) MCP Servers & Agent Integrations In-Product AI Assistants AI Content Pipelines

Product & Growth

User Acquisition Optimization Cohorted LTV Calculation In-App Purchases & Subscriptions A/B Testing Frameworks Onboarding & Paywall Optimization

Marketing

Google Ads Apple Search Ads Meta Ads TikTok Ads Reddit Ads Influencer Marketing

Engineering Leadership

Cross-Functional Teams Hiring & Mentoring Legacy Stack Modernization Infrastructure Cost Optimization

Mobile & Platforms

App Development & Publishing Internal Platform Services MMP Integration Modular Mobile SDKs Remote Configuration & Admin Tooling Infrastructure & DevOps Legal & Compliance Tooling

Data & Analytics

Product Analytics Architecture CRM Systems Multi-App Standardized Analytics ETL Pipelines & Data Warehouse

Career Path

2026 — Now

Product Engineer · AI Platform & Integrations

Draftboard · US / Remote

Early-stage US startup that finds warm introductions in a customer's own network. Part of a four-person core team working directly with the founder, owning the AI platform and integrations from business problem to production. Built the public Integration API, a hosted MCP server with plugins for ChatGPT and Codex, and Draftboard Ask, an in-product AI assistant.

2019 — Now

Founder & Operator

Own products · Bootstrapped

Seabook, Nite, Amply and Happens, built and run on my own money: product, UX/UI, engineering, analytics and paid acquisition. Full-time from 2024 to early 2026, including mobile product and monetization consulting for other app teams.

2021 — 2024

Head of Platforms Engineering

Mosaic Group (IAC) · NYC / Remote

Led a 14+ person department across Product, Backend, Mobile SDK, Frontend, QA and Delivery through team leads and product managers. Owned the shared platforms behind IAC's ~40-app subscription portfolio: Transaction Manager, the modular mobile SDK with attribution and ad modules, in-house analytics (BigFoot), A/B testing (Houston), CRM (AppMessages) and remote configuration. Reduced infrastructure spend by $45K/year.

2020 — 2021

Lead Backend Engineer

Mosaic Group (IAC) · Remote

Led the full engineering team of seven (4 backend, 2 iOS/Android, 1 frontend) on Transaction Manager, AppMessages and other shared platform products.

2015 — 2020

Backend Engineer → Lead Backend Engineer

Apalon (IAC) · Belarus

Built core internal platforms from the ground up: Transaction Manager (an in-house alternative to RevenueCat), Phoenix (app store A/B testing, a SplitMetrics alternative), AppMessages (a Leanplum alternative) and Configuru (remote configuration). Lead from 2019.

2012 — 2015

Lead Backend/Web Engineer

Mobitee · France / Hybrid

Grew the web team from a solo operation to a team of five. Restructured engineering, eliminated outsourcing dependencies, modernized the tech stack, and owned infrastructure and DevOps.

2007 — 2012

Early Projects

Freelance · During school and university

Websites and small B2B tools for local clients, including a CRM for a taxi company. Where I learned to ship software that people pay for.

Get in Touch

Building something ambitious? I'm open to conversations about product and engineering leadership, platforms, and AI-native products.