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Paulius Uza

Entrepreneur

Ierápetra, Crete

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Work Experience

  • Co-Founder

    2024

    FoundrySounds produces exceptional quality sounds and creative software for music, movies, games and entertainment industries.

2022

  • Founder

    2022

    Artifact is a digital art gallery and technology consultancy which represents over 250 artists. Working with top NFT marketplaces worldwide to create a lasting intersection between art and technology.

2021 - 2021

  • Senior Software Engineering Consultant

    2021 - 2021

    Advising and supporting SuperRare's development team on open source standards for blockchain, L2 solutions, security, scalability and ecological impact of NFTs. SuperRare launched in 2018 and is developing tools to help artists, innovators, and creators leverage the blockchain in the emerging decentralized world.

2019 - 2021

  • Engineering Lead

    2019 - 2021

    Upvest is empowering financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable and accessible API. At Upvest, I spearheaded the microservices initiative, which resulted in breaking up our monolithic app into efficient, scalable and error free microservices, powering mission critical parts of the infrastructure - blockchain data ingestion, transaction sending, historical data and webhooks. This change resulted in orders or magnitude gain in scalability, speed and reduction of error rates experienced by customers and enabled the next chapter of the company's growth. With my colleague Pranay Valson, I designed and implemented the first AI based production grade Ethereum fee estimation API which powered most of the DeFi applications during the 2020 DeFi surge, saving hundreds of millions of dollars in transaction costs globally. The project was awarded over $1M USD by European Regional Development Fund, through the ProFIT program of Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB).

  • Head of Development / Product

    2018 - 2018

    Implemented microservices infrastructure for applications running on Steem blockchain, conceptualized and built a new line of software products.

2016 - 2018

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2016 - 2018

    Liquidpace was a technology startup seeking to disrupt financial industry verticals by creating innovative products, solutions and tools for data driven decisions and simplified business processes and to make personalized services accessible to all.

2014 - 2016

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2014 - 2016

    Overseeing technology and product development for BDSwiss. Leading a small R&D team, helped grow BDSwiss business 10x from 2M to 20M+ in brokerage income, reached 500k+ customers and 200M+ turnover in just two years, re-vamped infrastructure, optimized processes and built new products for B2C and B2B. Transformed the company's technical capabilities to support multiple products, launched MT4 platform next to Binary, built new customer relationship management and business intelligence tools.

2013 - 2015

  • Chief Technology Officer

    2013 - 2015

    Co-founder, Hospitality Technology, Software Development, Sales & Marketing, Hotels & Cruise Lines Travel & Tourism Applications. Twilux developed a platform for hotels which enabled digital bookings, enhanced check-in / check-out experience, keyless room access and more.

  • Creative Director / Producer

    2008 - 2009

    Creative Director at ZenTeam - Ashley and Holmes in Athens, Greece. Creating and implementing rich interactive experiences for clients like MTV, Creta Farm, FNAC, Nokia, Hyundai and Aegean to name a few. My work consisted of: - team / project management / time tracking - visual and technical concept creation - design of graphical elements, defining visual style guidelines - quality assurance - front end / back end programming

2007 - 2008

  • System Architect

    2007 - 2008

    Leading the design and development of next generation mobile advertising platform "Mobucks". More information: http://www.out-there-media.com