Aleksey Bykhun
🇺🇦 🌴 💻 🎸🎷 🥦 🍶
#ukraine #moscow #bali #vr #bitcoin #physics #macbook #quasivegetarian #coffeeBorn in Kiev, Ukraine. Started as "the smart kid". Spent 8 years in Moscow studying Physics and Computer Science. Became "the cool kid". Did a rock band, a TV show and a coffee shop.
Moved to Bali at the end of 2020. Launched buildship.xyz last summer 2021.
Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. – Walter Isaacson, "Steve Jobs"
Love applying my mind to hard problems and reshape them into easy ones. Love working with people who are interesting enough to talk to.
💻 What do I do?
- 2021 – CEO at buildship.xyz – no-code NFT launcher for small creators
- 2020 – CPO at xSigma.fi – stablecoin DEX, more than 1B$ total volume processed
- 2018 – CTO at Swaponline.io – cross-chain decentralized exchange, first in the world to make USDT-ETH atomic swap
- > 10 years in Software development
💯 Core competence
- Build Frontend – I do good websites quickly
- Shape Product – I understand users well and communicate ideas successfully
- Draw Customers – I personally talk to my clients, many pay because of my attention to their problems
- Explain Blockchain – Bitcoin since 2014, I know the technology limitations and inner workings very good, know how apply them to the problem at hand
🥦 Other
- Ran a coffeeshop during student years – we attracted more customers than could possibly process, coffee machine was literally exploding every evening
- TV host for Phystech TV – hosted annual 8-hour stream
- Bookworm – read 50 of iconic books, each of which is enough to change your life (and they did)
- Angel investor at emovi.app – a movie recommendation app for movie geeks
🤖 Future plans
- ⛵ Cross the four oceans on a yacht
- 🚀 Launch a startup accelerator
- 🎬 Retire and make movies
- 🧓🏻 Invest into ageing research to be immortal