Jozef Antony

Jozef Antony Consulting

✔️ I’ve built software development teams from scratch for 10+ companies worldwide
✔️ 3 of my clients’ companies were later acquired by 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁, and 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸.
✔️ 25+ years of experience in the software development space

Here is a sample breakdown of two projects we have handled:

1:

The client is in the life science industry. We built a software development team from scratch. The software solution helped the company to run and document clinical trials. We acted as an outsourcing partner.

The company was later acquired by Medidata. And later, Medidata was acquired by Dassault Systeme. The team continued to operate and grow to 15-17 developers, testers, DevOps engineers. This partnership lasted for 6 years.

2:

Built a development outsourced team to work on one of the first file-sharing and collaboration platforms in 2005 (like Dropbox or Google Drive). The solution was focused on enterprise customers. They used it for file sharing and backup. It was scaled to 170.000 paying customers. The company was later sold to Autotask and later to Datto.

As an outsourcing partner, we scaled the team to 15-20 developers and testers. Responsible for the application development, testing, hiring developers, and managing day-to-day operations of the development team. We constantly communicate with partners in Denmark and the US. This partnership is still ongoing since its inception in 2005. 

𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹:

jozef.antony@gmail.com

Growth & Technology Advisor

I've worked with many companies, including 𝗦𝗼𝗼𝗻𝗥 (data service which liberates users from their offices using latest mobile technologies), 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗙𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀/𝗩𝗶𝘇𝗿𝗲𝗮 (sharing service which was recently sold to Microsoft) and various domestic companies and public sector institutions.

𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹:

jozef.antony@gmail.com

Tech Advisor / Fractional CTO

Foundation s.r.o.

Managing daily operations (software development, sales). Experienced in management of SW project, sales.

Successfully running big project for various customers, including SoonR (data service which liberates users from their offices using latest mobile technologies), WebFives/Vizrea (sharing service which was recently sold to Microsoft) and various domestic companies and public sector institutions.

CTO, Owner

Outsourced.SK / Naxos s.r.o.

Web page focused on software development outsourcing especially in Europe and Slovakia. Free articles about our experience with outsourcing projects - how to manage and run them, case studies.
Certified Affiliate Manager, affiliate, affiliate programs.

Owner, Director

SingularCRM / Biz App Technologies Limited

Customer Acquisition and Relationship Management Platform for partners.

Our strategy is to deliver exceptional Customer Acquisition and Relationship Management solutions to our customers, OEM's and business partners.

Performance impact is a critical theme in our solutions; whether to improve the understanding about business productivity, customer relationships or efficiency. 

SingularCRM solutions are event-based and help to better present the business picture to individuals, team managers and executives.

As “one size fits all” may work for some, we believe in personalizing our solutions. If the functions you require are not already available, we can tailor the SingularCRM platform to deliver the solution you want. Private Cloud or On-premise

CN Resources Int. (SK)

 Acted as a deputy of the project manager and managed 2-3 projects (5-10 people)
 Created plans and estimations, measured performance, evaluated risks, tracking status, managing change and distribute reports to management and clients. Interviewed, hired and trained new people for the team
 Developed and supported products at the customer, tailored applications to customers needs (in Germany, US, Austria, Italy)

Project Manager Deputy / Designer / Analyst

	Lead team of developers to develop a new generation of the software application, which is one of the main companys products - delivered the product on time and within budget
	Participated on analysis and design, gathered and organized clients requirements, created and communicated design documentation, controlled change requests
	Supported the product: troubleshooting, implemented of new solutions
	Implemented and executed quality system (CMM Level 2) in the projects

Team Leader / Designer

	Designed and implemented new solutions (enhancements) which were based on the knowledge of various company products
	Delivered solution which allowed a migration of old Win16 technology to Win32 and later to Linux and greatly reduced development, debugging and testing time (solution developed mostly in free time)
	Designed and implemented subsystem allowing product to be more flexible for the customers
	Established a new enhancements project and later appointed as a deputy project manager of the project

Designer, Analyst, Programmer

	Stay at Nettest, formerly GN Nettest (Copenhagen, Denmark), our mothers company and outsourcing partner
	Gathered knowledge about the various partners products, in order to start outsourcing in Slovakia 
	Designed and implemented solutions with C++, Java, Python languages on Unix (Tru64, Solaris), Linux systems for telecommunications company

•	Designed and implemented software solutions for Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of SR based on Informix database and Microsoft OS (ISOP)
•	Cooperated and communicated with the team of the partner company in Slovakia

Analyst, Programmer

Caligari Corp. USA, CA

	Designed and built 3D graphics applications, created support for scripting languages, animations
	Tele-working: together with colleagues in Slovakia and U.S.
	Supported beta-testers, resolved issues, analyzed requirements

GfAI (Slovensko) s.r.o, Bratislava (now CSC Computer Sciences spol. s r.o.)

	Designed and programmed various database systems (resource management, business support)
	Supported the systems on the client side (the mother company) in Switzerland (Zurich, Bern)

Growth & Technology Advisor For Tech Companies | Empower Your Business With My 25+ Years of Tech Leadership | Medidata, Autotask, and Microsoft acquired 3 of my clients’ companies

👉 4 Main Reasons Why Companies Can’t Build Market-Leading Products:

(𝗜) 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁-𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗱: Discovering that you cannot deliver fast enough. Communication friction, misunderstandings, and challenges between engineering, product, and business slow everything down.

(𝗜𝗜) 𝗜𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲: Encountering invisible barriers that hinder your business growth, whether they are technological limitations, inefficient processes, or gaps in team expertise.

(𝗜𝗜𝗜) 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆: Revamping your technology or product features to stay relevant may require significant resources and time. Focusing on business value helps you navigate these issues easier and faster.

(𝗜𝗩) 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲: The alarming possibility that product failures impact not just your customers' operations but also your hard-earned reputation.

Addressing these challenges requires more than just hard work and determination. 

As a Fractional CTO and Product Growth Partner - I help companies to:

✅ Focus on company objectives and align your teams with your big goals - building the wrong thing fast doesn’t bring any value. Focusing on business value constantly is the priority.

✅ Accelerate delivery without compromising quality - the common myth is that this cannot be accomplished; the opposite is true.

✅ Honest communication, even if (especially if) the news is not good. The dynamic business environment needs constant adjustment. Keeping the communication flow open ensures the project focuses on the business value.

✅ Establish a practical timeline through effective project management - mismanagement is a primary cause of software project failures. Keeping all parties in sync, especially key stakeholders, is crucial.

🎯 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁:

- I’m still in the trenches (I’m the CTO of Foundation.sk)
- 25+ years of experience in the software development space
- I’ve built software development teams from scratch for 10+ companies worldwide
- 3 of my clients’ companies were acquired by Medidata, Microsoft, and Autotask

Here’s what some of my clients say:

“Jozef and his team have been instrumental in turning our vision into reality, helping us grow confidently.” — Martin Frid-Nielsen, CEO of Soonr, Inc.

“Working with Jozef changed how we approach development, making our efforts more impactful and balanced.” — Janak Mehta, Web Traffic Guy, PREasy.com.

👉 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗲:

Send me a DM or email to book a free strategy call.

𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹:
jozef.antony@gmail.com

CTO as a Service

Taj Pelc

The Tech Paradigm

Fractional CTO & Strategic Technical Leadership Mentor

Founder — Hands-On → Strategic Coach

MVP Factory

After my journey with Spark Networks, I stepped into the role of Director of Engineering at MVP Factory—a digital agency that partners with both startups and big corporations on a variety of projects, from automotive to healthcare.

In this role, I was responsible for:

✓ Technical oversight of MVPF projects.
I ensured our projects met quality standards and client expectations. This often meant diving into upfront research to pick the right technology for each problem we tackled.

✓ Growing the internal engineering team.
I focused on hiring skilled Engineering Managers and expanding our in-house talent to build a stronger team.

✓ Expanding our network of tech partners.
We collaborated with freelancers and partner agencies, especially focusing on building relationships in Eastern Europe, to enhance our capabilities.

✓ Ensuring competence and leadership across the board.
I made sure we had capable leaders for each project and that our teams operated smoothly.

I aimed for projects to run with minimal involvement from me—empowering Engineering Managers and their teams to take ownership. Success, to me, was when teams were self-reliant and proactive.

Along the way, I learned a ton about sales, the importance of integrated teams, and value-based pricing. One of my proudest achievements was starting a subsidiary in Pakistan, offering European working conditions and above-market rates to attract top talent.

With these experiences under my belt, I decided to take what I knew about building products people love, leveraging technology, and forming effective teams to offer my unique mix of skills more broadly.

Director Of Engineering

Spark Networks

I moved to a bigger city, and my good friend convinced me it should be Berlin, not London.

On lunch with Zoosk's CTO, we discussed the product and how to improve it. It was the perfect opportunity to merge my passion for dating with my experience in technology.

The next day an offer landed on my desk, and I accepted. Two weeks into my new job, COVID-19 hit.

I was a team leader, with 0 people on my team. HR became my best friend. I was scanning a ton of CVs and interviewing plenty. I learned how to hire people remotely; we got up to 8.

The codebase was new to us. My team was afraid to touch it. I set up a build-to-learn loop. We got our hands dirty.

Thanks to my hardworking junior engineer, we shipped the first changes. They were cosmetic, but they made the app look better.

I connected people—the architect to our team, our team with a project team, the product team, and designers to our team. Politics were involved.

I learned a lot during this time. I learned how to manage a team and how to deal with conflict. I learned how to inspire people and show them purpose. I learned how to negotiate with the CTO.

And what helped me during this time was having a fantastic coach.

Technical Team Lead

By this point, I was a solid individual contributor with some team lead experience, a passion for product, and an unhealthy habit of messing with deployment scripts. This is my favorite project of this time.

The team that I joined was small and had an e-sports project. The founders wanted to create a platform that supported fully automated DOTA2 tournaments.

The team was ready to ship, but someone had to upload new versions to make a release manually. Perfect, my pet peeve. I fixed it by configuring AWS, setting up a Docker swarm, and automating it with a dash of bash magic.

I met with the CEO regularly to brainstorm new features and discuss adding new games. I encouraged the product to involve engineering earlier to save time on production-level designs that get gutted by engineers. I proposed how we can increase customer engagement by restricting 1v1 time slots.

And some nights, I did not get much sleep because production broke, and I was the hobby DevOps. Some days I spent optimizing SQL queries. Some days I organized manual testing with 30 hired QAs. And some days, I wrote code.

It's all fair game when you're working at a startup.

I learned how to ship fast, how to pivot quickly, and what makes an efficient team. I learned how to slice up a project and delegate.

And I learned that growing the team could kill your velocity if you are not careful about how you grow it.

The Wild Years of Freelancing

Sportradar AG

I came to replace a team lead on the Mobile API that had just quit. And then the CEO, whose pet project this was leaving too. The app was full of bugs. It was often failing.

There was no product owner. It was the perfect opportunity for what I love to do.

I started drilling:
Who are the users?
What do they find valuable?
How much are they paying?
How many costs are we incurring?
What should we be pricing the product?
What feature levels do we want to offer?

The process was uncomfortable but necessary. I took the learnings and worked with our regional CEO to develop the pricing models.

I worked with the copywriter to create a new presentation page and adjust the messaging with my team to build and deploy it.

A fantastic engineer Dime joined my team for the rewrite. He identified the valuable core feature set and did the architecture. We rewrote it as a collection of microservices tied together with RabbitMQ. We had tests.

I used my hobby DevOps skills, and one late afternoon we sat down with Dime and shipped it. It worked. It was fast. It was stable.

Tech Lead

Flaviar

My first startup. The grind. I was young and passionate.

I used my DevOps hobby to migrate the development environment to Vagrant to make spinning it up for a new developer easy. I also wrote the deployment scripts and handled AWS.

I was the only one on the backend for a time, so I wrote the Flaviar API the external mobile team integrated into the native app to list drinks, make purchases and display the flavor spiral. I integrated Stripe, PayPal, Klarna, and Sofort and became a payment connoisseur.

Eventually, I got my buddy Denis on board, and he took over the architecture work and the heavy lifting on the backend.

I was a good buddy with the Customer Success team and the designers. I wanted to fix the product. I had ideas; I pitched them hard.

Eventually, I got offered a VP role to organize dev work. I turned it down. I wanted to increase the value to the customer. Unless you build the right thing, no amount of engineering efficiency gets you the growth that you need.

Senior Developer

Httpool

After finishing my Master's, I got a job at Httpool. I was eager to apply my organizational skills in a role more aligned with that. I migrated us to Jira and set up the workflows.

But that did not last. There was no space for a scrum master on that team. Everyone was hands-on, so I went back to writing code. I found my good buddy Denis here. He taught me TDD, APIs, services, and design patterns and deepened my knowledge of Javascript.

I was responsible for integrating the Facebook Ads API. Facebook was investing heavily in ads and pushing new features hard. Breaking changes every three months. It felt like I was constantly playing catch-up.

My best buddies were the marketing team—our users. If the system failed to sync their ads, they talked to me. I fixed problems and pushed for improvements.

I fell in love with product work and building something people want to use. Working closely with our UX designer inspired me. I learned a lot about building interfaces. And when a new opportunity appeared, I followed him to a startup.

3fs d.o.o.

My first job. I got it because I worked on side projects at Uni, building websites for fun and sometimes profit. You know, made by your cousin type of quality.

My boss David was tough on me. But he was an excellent teacher. He taught me OOP, SQL, and how to separate logic from presentation. It was intense, but I learned quickly.

He taught me to ship things features fast but test them properly.

I learned to be a decent junior, banging out features. I messed up a lot. Sometimes in production. I got the Czech flag a lot.

But I went from working on side projects to working on the company's main cash cow.

I wrote a few backend services—my first ones. I learned a lot from more experienced peers. I did a few all-nighters.

And then, I left for my Masters's degree. Richer for a good experience. My time in 3fs was short, but it kickstarted my career.

Junior Web Developer

I help overwhelmed, hands-on CTOs become strategic leaders | Fractional Executive | Tinkerer

I help fast-growing companies align their tech teams with business goals to drive real results.

Rapid scaling often slows you down—everything feels on fire, tech teams are busy but not producing desired outcomes, priorities misalign, goals are missed, and quick iterations become challenging.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Success isn’t about features and code; it’s about delivering value to your customers. They care about results, not the underlying code. The faster you deliver what they want, the more your business grows.

I transform tech teams into motivated, customer-driven units that:
	•	Provide options, not excuses
	•	Build the right features quickly
	•	Deploy for real-world feedback
	•	Collaborate across departments
	•	Drive decisions with ROI in mind

You already have the resources; they just need the right focus.

Who I Help:
	•	CEOs and Founders feeling the pains of scaling
	•	Business Leaders frustrated with misaligned tech priorities
	•	Organizations wanting to bridge tech and business outcomes

How I Help:
	•	Strategic Alignment: Ensuring tech initiatives drive business value
	•	Process Optimization: Enhancing efficiency and adaptability
	•	Team Empowerment: Coaching tech teams to be proactive and results-oriented

Ready to align your business and tech, achieve meaningful outcomes, and unlock your team’s potential? DM me to see how I can help you achieve your goals.

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