Ivan Tert

Ivan Tert

San Francisco, CA, USA

Founder | Product manager | Startup operations expert

About Me

Started with hackathons (participated in 20+ of them), co-founded as CTO Chatfirst in 2015 - conversational platform for corporates and their employees. Bootstrapped 6 years, onboarded S&P100 companies and top Telecom and Retails companies of CIS region.

After shifted to product management and startup operations. Worked in startups of A,B stages (B2B, SaaS, Enterprise, YC and 500 backed startups) as Product manager of internal tools, Head of operations. I know how to make companies and processes scalable.

Impressive Accomplishments
Building AI agents since 2015
Bootstrapped AI agents company with customers from S&P100 with 5+ years LTV
Worked on workload management system at Large Hadron Collider (CERN)
Employment

Sopos

Founder

2025 - present

TraceAir Technologies

Lead Product Manager

2022 - present

ElectroNeek

Product Manager

2021 - 2022

360dialog

Head Of Operations

2020 - 2021

Chatfirst

Co-Founder/CTO

2015 - 2022

Education

CERN

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science

2017 (ABD)

MSU

Master's degree in Physics

2015

Free Time
🐕 Dogs🎵 Music production🎾 Tennis