Dominic van Almsick

https://usefoundations.app

• Built a full-stack SaaS platform from zero to first paying customers in six weeks, with sole ownership of product, engineering, and design
• Architecting an LLM-powered conversational interface enabling users to operate the entire application via natural language, with WhatsApp integration in development
• Full technical ownership across Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres/Prisma, Stripe Connect, Vercel, PostHog, Sentry, Vitest, and Playwright

https://www.tacto.ai/

• Contributed to the core SRM platform at a post-€50m Series A company (Sequoia/Index Ventures), working within a production codebase at meaningful scale
• Shipped frontend features in React and TypeScript as part of a focused team of 5 engineers refactoring core product functionality

https://www.swallow.app/

• Joined as Employee #1 post-$1m seed round, contributing to architectural decisions alongside the founding engineer
• Led complete rebuild of the enterprise customer dashboard, redesigning both the UI and underlying API integration
• Drove front-end modernisation across the codebase: JavaScript to TypeScript, class components to hooks, vanilla CSS to TailwindCSS
• Implemented LLM-powered generative AI features with performance optimisations including response streaming and web workers

https://brainstation.io/

• Supported the education team in delivering the Software Engineering bootcamp.
• Led student support sessions, programming challenges, and student feedback.
• Coached and mentored a cohort of 20 students learning software engineering fundamentals.

Recipient of the Robin Chatterjee Prize for academic performance

First Class Honours