Igor Kurochka

Chief Technology Officer @ Meetball

About

I’ve spent 20+ years building software, leading teams, and helping founders turn chaos into shipped product. Most recently I was CTO at Zoop. Now I’m ready for my next project - something with a pulse and a purpose.I care about making real-world systems less dumb and more efficient with automation, AI and agents, where it makes sense. The sweet spot: fintech that helps regular people, green energy that actually moves the needle, real estate that isn’t smoke and mirrors, or health tech that does more than throw dashboards at you.I build with AI/LLMs + agents and automate anything that wastes time - without sanding off all the soul.If your product is weird, useful, and allergic to vanity metrics, I’m in. Not looking for a title. Looking for a product worth losing sleep over.

Country

Portugal

City

Lisbon

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Technology Management, Agentic Workflows, Product Development, Team Leadership, Business Process Automation, Large Language Models (LLM), Technical Architecture, Product Strategy, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Software Development, Machine Learning, Web Development, Project Management, Software Project Management, Product Management, Web Services, OOP, Analytics, Django

Experience

Chief Technology Officer

Meetball

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

Lisbon, Portugal

Leading the technical vision for a community-driven platform that reimagines how people connect at offline events and beyond them. We are building a high-scale ecosystem centered on the belief that "asking for help" is the most effective way to meet and engage with proactive people.

Chief Technology Officer

ZOOP

2021-4 - 2025-7 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Lisbon, Portugal

Leading the development process, overseeing outsourcing tech partner. Document and develop architecture, data flows and infrastructure. Configuring and managing continuous deployment and distribution processes. Helping the business team to select and apply the best tech solutions and vendors.

Chief Technology Officer

MortgageLadder

2020-8 - 2021-4 · 9 mos

London, England, United Kingdom

Supervising the development of the product, leading the resolution of all technical queries on data security and architecture, doing code reviews to ensure good code quality, coordinating the conversations with the technical partners, managing the production of data analytics to support the regular monitoring of business metrics etc

CTO / CEO

Edicasoft

2017-9 - 2021-3 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Bulgaria

Edicasoft means Every Day I Create Amazing Software, which is true, as it's the principle of work each engineer in our company. We optimize product development costs through tech innovations. Our main expertise areas - Fintech, Healthcare, Video Conferencing. We're the most proficient in such tech domains as Machine Learning & AI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Big Data & Analytics, Cloud Adoption.

CEO

Blomsy

2019-2 - 2021-2 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Bulgaria

Business development and operations

VP of Engineering

Odin Money

2018-6 - 2020-4 · 1 yr 11 mos

Manage the project development process of the Bay area based fintech startup Odin Money

Software Engineer

Self-Employed

2017-6 - 2017-9 · 4 mos

Bulgaria

Web and desktop software engineering, IT Consulting Python development for web using Django and Flask frameworks, Celery for background tasks. Front end and backend Javascript development either for web or desktop using Electron/Nodejs engine and frameworks Angular (angularjs), Express, socket.io etc

CTO/Team Lead

Uplanet Inc

2008-4 - 2017-5 · 9 yrs 2 mos

Uplanet (formerly Uran) works with a wide range of technologies: JavaScript, PHP, jQuery, Bootstrap, HTML/CSS, AngularJS, iOS and Android, and many more to build apps, implement software, and customize the IT solutions. Our locations: the US, Germany, Bulgaria and Ukraine. We amplify US software firms with technical expertise in web/mobile development for over 10 years. The team definitely fits all your requirements by providing business analysis, solutions choice and custom code and design development. Our experience and team includes professionals from different industries, like finance, medical, heavy machinery plants. We understand your "pains"and have wide knowledge in how to improve your processes.

Deputy head of IT department in a bank

АО "Метабанк"

2004-10 - 2008-4 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Ukraine

Software development for the issue of loans to remote locations (workflow). Development of the database structure, logic applications, writing server system, coordination of several programmers. Instruments: • J2EE(JSP&Servlets) • Spring Framework 2.0 • MySql 5 • iBATIS Framework • Ajax • Development of software for controlling the payment of arrears on loans, the development of the database structure, logic applications, the implementation of (Oracle 9i, PL / SQL, Php 5, AJAX)