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Mitchell Opatowsky

Full-Stack Engineer & Technical Product Manager

Address: Austin, TXEmail: mitchellopatowsky@gmail.comWeb: themitch.dev

Profile

Accomplished full-stack engineer and technical product manager with 9+ years of experience building and scaling innovative products in Web3, SaaS, and fintech. Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams, raising capital, and delivering measurable business impact through strategic product decisions and technical execution.

Work Experience

Full-Stack Engineering & Technical Product Manager

Superform Inc.

November 2023October 2024

Remote

  • Conceptualized and built a Telegram-based AI portfolio agent. Stack: TypeScript/Node.js with PostgreSQL, Knex.js, Telegraf.js, and custom middleware.
  • Accessed Superform API and on-chain data to recommend top-performing vaults & conducted API client prospecting.
  • Executed cross-protocol competitor market analysis in DeFi Data APIs and yield execution to validate differentiation.
  • Positioned Piggy as a demand-side TVL acquisition and protocol growth vehicle.

Cofounder, Head of Product & Sales

Thorium Development Group

April 2023October 2023

Austin, TX

  • Spearheaded and led GTM strategy for the international relaunch and protocol rollout for Dexible post-acquisition. Initiated and led sales pipeline to procure new dev contracts worth $200k in 5 months.
  • Coordinated blockchain team efforts to reduce on-chain order evaluation state errors by 40%.
  • Assisted the backend team in diagnosing gas overage errors, reducing failed transactions by 65%.

Cofounder, Head of Product

Dexible

November 2020April 2023

Austin, TX

  • Led efforts to raise $150k angel round and $1.5 million pre-seed round to acquisition. Led and designed an economic reward incentive program. Developed token models for inflation, emission, burn.
  • Orchestrated a major product launch and achieved 15% improvement in CSAT. Coincided with a custom-built referral marketing program, reducing CPA by 35%.
  • Led 15 person cross-functional team across engineering, sales, and marketing using Agile Scrum, successfully launching four major product updates ahead of schedule and under budget, saving approximately $300k in development costs.
  • Led the frontend team's efforts to account for complex on-chain order states. Spearheaded sales strategy to acquire 15 hedge fund customers within the first year, generating $500m in trade volume.
  • Prioritized and led 2-week sprint cycles, resulting in a 35% faster cycles and 30% improvement for customer satisfaction.
  • Analyzed user behavior data to guide a major web app UX overhaul, which led to a 70% reduction in trader order abandonment and increased average trade order value by 18%.
  • Organized a sales strategy for integrations using widgets and iFrames to secure 3 major clients. Revamped Dexible API to support these clients, leading to a 25% boost in created orders.

Cofounder, Frontend Developer

BUIDLHub

June 2019November 2020

New York, NY

  • Designed pre-built recipes for notifications and state changes.
  • Identified and diagnosed frontend errors to decrease abandonment by 20%.
  • Coordinated launches with relevant protocols & achieved a 30% improvement in DAU.
  • Coordinated with Bankless & POAP to develop the first on-chain-driven role management system with NFTs.

Cofounder, Head of Product

CryptoPets

December 2017October 2018

New York, NY

  • Closed $150k in angel funding. Conducted industry, competitive, and customer analyses to inform the positioning of products to support transition in sales structure.
  • Designed and managed the development of the frontend screener dashboard and gathered analytics for reports.

Cofounder, Product Growth Manager

Coinscore

July 2017March 2018

Washington, D.C.

  • Closed $150k in angel funding. Conducted industry, competitive, and customer analyses to inform the positioning of products to support transition in sales structure.
  • Designed and managed the development of the frontend screener dashboard and gathered analytics for reports.

Cofounder, CEO

Servify

December 2015March 2017

Washington, D.C.

  • Conducted customer discovery research with 60 local nonprofits to prioritize application features.
  • Participated in the GW Entrepreneurship Program annual pitch competition in 2016 and 2017.

Education

BS International Economics & BA Geographic Information Systems

George Washington University

May 2019

Washington, D.C.

  • Graduated with Honors, GPA 3.8/4.0
  • Minor in Business Administration

Skills

Strategic

Venture FundraisingGTM StrategyAgile & ScrumProduct LifecycleProduct OpsSprint PlanningA/B Testing

Development

React.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLMicroservicesDockerJenkins

Technical

SQLPythonPyTorchScikit-learnAWS SDK & LambdaGrafana & ElasticsearchNx Monorepo

Design & UX

FigmaWireframing & PrototypingUsability TestingAdobe IllustratorAdobe Photoshop

Tools & Software

JIRAClickupConfluenceGoogle AnalyticsAhrefsMailchimpShopify

Other

Leadership Programs

  • Graduate from Creative Destructive Labs accelerator

Hackathons

  • ETH Denver Mentor 2022 & 2023
  • Hackmoney 2021 Participant
  • HackFS 2021 Participant
  • Microsoft Hackathon 2021
  • ETH Denver 2020 Medalist
  • Consensys Hacks 2019 Finalist

Volunteering

  • ATX DAO Hackathon mentor
  • ATX DAO Avalanche Artist Residency
  • ATX DAO REP Project

Interests

  • Roadtrips
  • Avid Snowboarder & Skier
  • Tennis & Padel
  • Breathwork & Yoga
  • Master Event & Community Organizer

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