About
Ivan Valkov is co-founder and CTO of Slicker, an AI-powered subscription failure recovery platform. He has held product and team leadership roles across startups and larger organizations.
Founder at SlickerYC S23
Intro paths
YC
Ivan went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Ivan can intro founders to Slicker's investors below.
Slicker's investors · 1
Co-founders at Slicker
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Dani PenevFounder
Experience
- SlickerChief Technology Officercurrent2023 — present
- Optimize All The ThingsPodcast Hostcurrent2023 — presentGreater London, England, United Kingdom
- BlackRockVice President - Senior Software Engineer2022 — 2023Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- SeldonSoftware Engineer2021 — 2022Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- ImprobableSoftware Engineer2018 — 2021London Area, United Kingdom
- Channel Shift SolutionsSoftware Engineer2017 — 2018Greater Glasgow Area
- ImprobableSoftware Engineering Intern2017London, United Kingdom
- University of GlasgowDemonstrator2016 — 2017Greater Glasgow Area
- The Hut GroupSoftware Engineering Intern2016Northwich
Skills & more
Go9Kubernetes5SQL3Software Development5Test Driven DevelopmentSpring MVC3Java5Git6Subversion4Jenkins2Microsoft SQL Server2AngularJS2
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)JavaScriptDockerPythonDjangoTeamworkSpring SecurityGolangLanguages Bulgarian · English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ivan Valkov?
- Ivan Valkov is co-founder and CTO of Slicker, an AI-powered subscription failure recovery platform. He has held product and team leadership roles across startups and larger organizations.
- Where does Ivan Valkov work?
- Ivan Valkov is Founder of Slicker.
- What companies did Ivan Valkov found?
- Ivan Valkov founded Slicker.
- Where did Ivan Valkov go to school?
- Ivan Valkov studied at University of Glasgow (MSci, Software Engineering); Y Combinator.
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