February 9, 2022

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How to become great CTO in startup

2025

Ukraine

🧩 Being a good developer isn’t enough to launch your own startup.

This meetup offered a behind-the-scenes look at technical entrepreneurship, where the main role isn’t just writing code — it’s about building the product, the team, and the value.

During the meetup, we discussed:

  • How a technical background can help — or hinder — startup development
  • Why even failure is a step toward a successful launch
  • What skills do you need to develop to become the ‘tech co-founder’ everyone’s looking for

The speakers shared their real-life experiences of building startups as technical co-founders — juggling architecture, team building, business models, and keeping the project alive.

This meetup was an honest conversation about first steps, internal doubts, and why “failing” is okay — as long as you tried.

Meetup speakers

Speaker
Volodymyr Sveredyuk

CTO @ DEV Challenge

Volodymyr developed the platform and service station of DEV Challenge, the largest IT competition in Europe. He also has experience in launching more than 35 IT projects and holds the position of CEO at KERUJ and CTO at KESETECH.

Speaker
Artem Melnychenko

CTO @ Wantent

Artem started as a developer at an ambitious Ukrainian startup. Now he works as CTO at Wantent, a consumer analytics company developing an AI-powered reaction recognition platform.

Upcoming events

AI Implementation

Over the May holidays, tech leaders will meet to talk about how they are implementing AI in development and business processes.

May 1, 2025
Sergiy Boryslavskyy

Director of Digital Product Development @ Vodafone Ukraine

Veronika Tamaio Flores

Product Lead @ Railsware,
ex-CTO @ Avocado AI

Conference | How to Become Great CTO

In the last days of May, DEV Challenge, in collaboration with UNIT.City, will bring together Ukraine’s tech leaders, entrepreneurs, company and startup founders, CTOs and managers to discuss the most pressing and essential topics in technology, business, and leadership.

29 May
150 seats
Alex Kovalchuk
Co-founder & CTO @ Cargofy
Yana Mykhailenko
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin
Volodymyr Sveredyuk
CTO @ DEV Challenge