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Founder and senior-most engineer with 20 years building end-to-end consumer products—from architecture to go-to-market. Scaled Bunch to 5,700+ members and 1,200+ events across Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City as the sole engineer/operator, owning product, engineering, partnerships, pricing, and monetization. Previously led web architecture at AMC Networks (Shudder, Sundance Now) and served as senior-most engineer/consultant across startups and enterprises, with emphasis on shipping production React Native/Web apps, scalable backends, real-time systems, and measurable retention and cost optimizations.…Founder and senior-most engineer with 20 years building end-to-end consumer products—from architecture to go-to-market. Scaled Bunch to 5,700+ members and 1,200+ events across Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City as the sole engineer/operator, owning product, engineering, partnerships, pricing, and monetization. Previously led web architecture at AMC Networks (Shudder, Sundance Now) and served as senior-most engineer/consultant across startups and enterprises, with emphasis on shipping production React Native/Web apps, scalable backends, real-time systems, and measurable retention and cost optimizations.

Aleks Cajk

Software Engineer, Web Developer, Architect, +4

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Founder and senior-most engineer with 20 years building end-to-end consumer products—from architecture to go-to-market. Scaled Bunch to 5,700+ members and 1,200+ events across Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City as the sole engineer/operator, owning product, engineering, partnerships, pricing, and monetization. Previously led web architecture at AMC Networks (Shudder, Sundance Now) and served as senior-most engineer/consultant across startups and enterprises, with emphasis on shipping production React Native/Web apps, scalable backends, real-time systems, and measurable retention and cost optimizations.…Founder and senior-most engineer with 20 years building end-to-end consumer products—from architecture to go-to-market. Scaled Bunch to 5,700+ members and 1,200+ events across Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City as the sole engineer/operator, owning product, engineering, partnerships, pricing, and monetization. Previously led web architecture at AMC Networks (Shudder, Sundance Now) and served as senior-most engineer/consultant across startups and enterprises, with emphasis on shipping production React Native/Web apps, scalable backends, real-time systems, and measurable retention and cost optimizations.

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Founder and senior-most engineer with 20 years building end-to-end consumer products—from architecture to go-to-market. Scaled Bunch to 5,700+ members and 1,200+ events across Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City as the sole engineer/operator, owning product, engineering, partnerships, pricing, and monetization.

Previously led web architecture at AMC Networks (Shudder, Sundance Now) and served as senior-most engineer/consultant across startups and enterprises, with emphasis on shipping production React Native/Web apps, scalable backends, real-time systems, and measurable retention and cost optimizations.

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Work Experience

Founder & Head of Product at Bunch

January 1, 2022 - Present

Founded and scaled a hyperlocal social platform for meeting people in one’s neighborhood. Built a cross-platform app (iOS, Android, web) and personally owned architecture, engineering, go-to-market, partnerships, and operations. Recruited and activated 5,500+ members via channel testing, channel attribution, and iteration on messaging that measurably improved conversion. Designed B2B offering for private communities placed inside coworking, residential, office, and university spaces, including discovery, scoping, and partnership execution. Built pricing and monetization models (tiered RSVP pricing, early-bird mechanics, referral payouts, and paid placement for outside promoters). Shipped core product features including event creation and RSVP flows, real-time chat, profiles, groups and social wall, account integrity systems, referral programs, and moderation tooling. Re-architected event retrieval for performance and diagnosed and resolved severe socket-latency issues.

Founder & Head of Product at Bunch (letsbunch.com)

January 1, 2022 - Present

Built and launched Hyperlocal social platform for meeting people in your neighborhood. Started as an in-person meetup in 2022, scaled into a cross-platform product (iOS, Android, web). Owned product, engineering, architecture, operations, go-to-market, partnerships, and monetization. Grew to 5,500+ members and executed 1,200+ events across Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City as sole operator. Closed and managed recurring B2B revenue partnerships across NJ/NYC, including placing private communities inside coworking, residential, office, and university spaces. Ran channel and messaging experiments (paid social, flyers, posting, vendor tables), killed underperforming spend, and reallocated to higher-performing grassroots channels. Designed two-tier RSVP pricing and mechanics addressing cold starts, set referral payouts, and built early-stage unit economics/investor narrative (competitive analysis, TAM/SAM/SOM, MRR projections). Engineered full-stack app solo: event/RSVP flows, real-

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Consulting at Focal Point Technologies LLC

January 1, 2007 - Present

Independent senior engineering practice delivering full-stack web and mobile solutions for startups and enterprise clients as senior-most/only engineer. Owned architecture, delivery, and technical direction end-to-end; shipped 30+ products. Work included multiple roles: - Tele Tails (2019-present): senior-most engineer on on-demand telehealth/telemedicine platform. Built React Native and React.js frontends, Node.js backend, MongoDB, Stripe, and real-time chat. Led Twilio-based video pipeline with audio/video splicing; drove infrastructure strategy across EC2 with load balancers, ELB, and Render. - Tele Tails cost reduction: replaced vendor SDK video composition with an ffmpeg-based pipeline to retrieve and recombine audio/video tracks, architected options/technical tradeoffs for leadership, and shipped savings near $500/month in storage costs. - Rove (2023-2024): senior-most engineer at early-stage startup; owned architecture and end-to-end feature delivery. - AMC Networks (2016-2017):

Principal Software Engineer, Consulting at Focal Point Technologies LLC

January 1, 2007 - Present

Independent senior engineering practice delivering full-stack web and mobile solutions for startups and enterprise clients as senior-most/only engineer. Owned architecture, delivery, and technical direction across 30+ shipped products. TeleTails (2019–): senior-most engineer on on-demand telehealth platform using React Native/React frontend, Node.js backend, MongoDB, Stripe, and real-time chat; built Twilio-based video pipeline with audio/video splicing and led infrastructure strategy on EC2 with load balancing, ELB, and Render. Implemented cost reduction by replacing vendor SDK video composition with an ffmpeg pipeline to retrieve and recombine separate audio/video tracks, saving close to $500/month in storage costs. Rove (2023–2024): senior-most engineer at early-stage startup; owned architecture and end-to-end feature delivery. AMC Networks (2016–2017): lead web developer and architect for Shudder and Sundance Now; established shared-module development, deployment, and rele

Software Engineer at Intel Corporation

January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2007

Built C#/.NET desktop applications and web services for monitoring software health for Intel’s 'lights-out' factory automation initiative (Fab software health monitoring).