Dominic van Almsick

• Built a full-stack SaaS platform for personal trainers and other 1:1 professionals to manage clients, payments, and scheduling.
• Designed and built the product from scratch, taking it from idea to MVP in six weeks, now live and generating revenue.
• Built with Next.js, shadcn-ui/tailwind, Stripe Connect for platform payments, Resend + React Email for transactional emails, Posthog for analytics, Vitest and Playwright for testing, Neon/Postgres, Prisma ORM, deployed on Vercel.

• Joined rapidly growing scale-up, post €50m funding round led by Sequoia and Index Ventures.
• Part of the core Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) team of 5 engineers tasked with a major upgrading and refactoring of the core product.

• Employee #1 post $1m funding round.
• Led the rebuild of the UI and API integration for the enterprise customer dashboard.
• Led migrations from JavaScript to TypeScript, class components to hooks, and vanilla CSS to TailwindCSS.
• Contributed to architectural decision-making alongside the founding engineer.
• Implemented generative AI features with LLM integrations, including optimization strategies (response streaming, web workers) to enhance UX and performance.

• Supported the education team in delivering the Software Engineering bootcamp.
• Led student support sessions, programming challenges, and student feedback.
• Coached and mentored a class of 20 students through their learning journeys.

• Prepared students for technical interviews at bootcamps and companies.
• Focused on programming fundamentals and full-stack project building.

• Founded Earthrise Initiative to support non-profits doing high impact work.
• Supported projects across mental health, economic opportunity, and education.

• Built a tool to mood-board, organise, and plan trips.
• Led the product team, UX/UI design, and fundraising efforts.

Recipient of the Robin Chatterjee Prize for academic performance

First Class Honours