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Jozef Gajdoš

Jozef Gajdoš
Founder @ Axelroad
Univerzita 'Pavla Jozefa Šafárika' v Košiciach, 2010
Košice, Košický kraj, Slovensko

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Rozbeh projektu
Start-up

Viac o mne

Založil som softvérovú agentúru a teraz pracujem na mobilnej aplikácii Axelroad, ktorá spája silový tréning a gamifikáciu.

https://www.axelroad.com/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/axelroad-workout-habit-builder/id6502515101?platform=iphone

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jozef-gajdos/

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Pracovné skúsenosti

Founder @ Axelroad
Košice, Kosice, Slovakia

Strength training - Your first 36 steps. Making fitness simple, fun, and rewarding.

Mobile app to help you start lifting weights and stick with it. Training program recommended by r/Fitness Reddit community (12M+ members).

2024 - súčasnosť
Founder @ Axelgate

We're building a mobile app called Axelroad to help people get stronger.

In the past, we helped banks and payment institutions develop mobile payment solutions.

"Axelgate helped CoreCard immensely with a time-critical project. Their domain knowledge allowed us to reach this complex goal in record time. And their professionalism made the collaboration easy." Mark Raleigh, COO at CoreCard, Atlanta, USA

"The Axelgate team was able to get to the core of the strengths and weaknesses of the app with minimum time. Based on this great experience we already started working on future projects."

2021 - súčasnosť
Head of Project Management @ transparex.sk
Kosice, Slovakia

Transparex brings transparency into public procurement. It helps participants make better data-driven decisions and prevents fraud and cartel behavior.

Data aggregation and data mining of financial data related to public procurement.

Responsibilities: * Set up processes and standards for effective SW development. * Set up SCRUM, communication standards, responsibilities, and quality standards. * Developed company-wide systems that deliver predictable results and ensure accountability.

Achievements * Helped the team to define and release MVP - accomplished in 2 months and 7 days.

2020 - 2021
Project Manager Team Lead @ Wirecard
Slovak Republic

Wirecard was a German payment processor and financial services provider. The company collapsed after an international financial scandal.

Responsibilities: * Project management and delivery of mobile software products * Team management * Recruiting * Managed resource allocation for projects (ongoing development and maintenance)

Achievements: * Built an iOS development team in the Slovak office in Košice (~25 people) * Started an academy program to train junior developers and automation QAs * Created an environment that supports and rewards self-improvement

Failures: * Ignored many warning signs.

I started as a Project Manager and was promoted to Team Lead after 12 months. As a PM I worked on high-complexity fintech projects involving multicultural distributed teams:

  1. boon Planet - One of the first neobanks. Payment and banking in a single app. Android and iOS apps. PCI DSS compliant. - leading a team ~25 (DEVs + QAs) - implemented efficient processes - on-time delivery of a high-quality product

  2. lm Card - Reloadable, multi-currency prepaid travel card Android and iOS apps for lastminute.com, UK. Payment and card management. - leading a team of 7 (DEVs + QAs)

  3. Al Ansari Exchange TravelCard - Multi-currency Reloadable Card Android and iOS apps for Al Ansari Exchange, Dubai. Payment and card management. - leading a team of 7 (DEVs + QAs)

  4. Al Fardan Travelezplus Card - Multi currency Reloadable Card Android and iOS apps for Al Fardan Exchange, Dubai. - leading a team of 6 (DEVs + QAs)

  5. CICash Card - Mobile banking application Android and iOS banking apps for CI Banco in Mexico. - leading a team of 7 (DEVs + QAs)

  6. United Money Travel Card - Multi-currency reloadable travel card Card management web app for United Money, Singapore.

  7. Bankomo - Mobile Banking apps

Android and iOS banking apps for ReiseBank, Germany. - leading a team of 12 (DEVs + QAs)

2016 - 2020
Project Manager @ University of P. J. Šafárik

UPJŠ is one of the best universities in Slovakia. I helped upgrade some of their facilities.

Responsibilities: * Managed upgrade and expansion of university research park - Technicom * Managed research and development activities involving more than 70 researchers * Responsible for delivering the project from inception to closure and compliance with all applicable rules * Coordinated tasks and deliverables across project activities * Set up internal project processes, communications, and data sharing * Coordinated and negotiated with all involved parties: partner universities, companies, vendors, construction companies, architects, and other professionals * Responsible for a budget of 4,5 mil. Euro

Achievements: * Successful on-time delivery * Added 500 m2 of laboratory and office space * Renovated 900 m2 of university facilities * State-of-the-art IT infrastructure upgrade

Other: * Developed an online system for submitting and evaluating internal VVGS grant applications (PHP/MySQL/JS). * Created a system for computing the number of citations from the UPJS library catalog (C++, HTML). * Member of Technology transfer office at UPJS - specialization IT and technology.

2011 - 2016
Assistant Professor @ International School of Management (ISM)
Prešov

College of International Business ISM Slovakia.

Responsibilities: * Started and taught course: Statistics for managers. * Helped implement information systems to manage study programs, science, and research activities. * Implemented and administered Academic Information System AiS2. * Designed and maintained the university computer network.

2006 - 2015
Assistant Professor @ Univerzita 'Pavla Jozefa Šafárika' v Košiciach
Košice

Main research focus:

  • Algorithms working in-place * Performance optimization with simultaneous storage minimization.

Selected papers:

  1. Multiway In-Place Merging: Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 411, Issues 16-18, (2010) 1793-1808 2. In-Place Sorting, SOFSEM 2011, LNCS Volume 6543, (2011) 248-259

Courses I taught: * Algorithms and data structures * Automata and formal languages * Programming-Algorithms-Complexity.

Helped organize international conferences: * DCFS 2007 * SOFSEM 2008 * SOFSEM 2014 Created simple registration servers (PHP/MySQL/JS).

2006 - 2010
Programmer @ VSL Software
Košice

VSL is a software development company focused on complex information systems. I worked here as a junior developer while studying.

Responsibilities: * Creating and optimizing complex SQL queries * Creating reports for the largest medical insurance company in Slovakia

Technologies: * SQL, XML, Informix 9:4

2004 - 2005
Carpenter @ Gajdos & Sons Construction
Connecticut, United States

I dropped out of university and worked as a carpenter for 2 years in the USA.

Built many houses and worked on many interesting projects.

Developed a lifelong love for woodworking and building things.

2000 - 2002

Vzdelanie

Vysokoškolské
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Univerzita 'Pavla Jozefa Šafárika' v Košiciach

My focus was on algorithm optimization. Algorithms with Minimal Storage, In-Place Merging, In-Place Sorting.

  • Multiway In-Place Merging - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-03409-113 * In-place sorting - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-18381-221 * Multiway blockwise in-place merging - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-414/paper3.pdf
2006 – 2010

Jazykové znalosti

Angličtina
C2 - expert
Slovenčina
C2 - expert
Nemčina
A2 - začiatočník

Preferencie

  • stredoškoláka
  • vysokoškoláka
  • mladého profesionála (prac. skúsenosti do 3 rokov od ukončenia VŠ)
  • startup
  • študentský projekt

  • dlhodobý mentoring

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