People First

We believe in putting people first and creating great working environments.

We’re an early-stage distributed team with experience in assessments, ML, and technology across startups & big tech, with extensive networks in Silicon Valley & the UK.

Culture eats
strategy
for breakfast

We’re a team made up of individuals, several with unconventional career paths: bootcamps, self-taught developers, military, academia, mental health care, public policy, business, technology, architecture, even acting and film!

We come to work and bring our best, we strive to move fast and thoughtfully. We make work something to be enjoyed. We know that diversity and inclusion matter, but we also know that ultimately it is diversity of thought and backgrounds that breeds unbridled innovation and performance. And despite our differences throughout, we have common core values.

Our values

Transparency

We value honesty, openness, accountablility, and straightforward communication.

Ownership

We are all owners of our product, and identify ourselves with what we’re building.

Design

We use a user-centered approach when building Gyfted product following best design practices.

Data

We follow a data-driven approach and we are aware of the risks related to operating on big data.

Customer Love

We care about our customers’ feedback, thus building the product people will love to use.

Privacy

Protecting our users identity is yet another of our core values. We will always stand on their side!

We are Gyfted!

We specialize in software engineering, data science, psychometrics, psychology, AI, cognitive science, machine learning, online assessment tools for recruitment, neuroscience, product design, public policy, recruiting, digital footprints, big data, organizational design, behavior design, economics.

Our Team

Ada

UX/UI Designer

An architect with years in concept & construction design and interior design experience. She studied Architecture at the Lublin University of Technology, Gdansk University of Technology and VIA University College in Denmark. Self-taught passionate UX/UI Designer who loves traveling, plants, people and good coffee!

Adam

CTO, Co-founder

Software engineer with an ownership and entrepreneurial mindset. Plays piano and saxophone. Used to be a professional runner (4th place in Poland). Executed multiple business ideas applying ML in real estate and transportation. He is a former Financial Software Developer @ Bloomberg’s BAS Infrastructure & FX teams. Graduated from King’s College London, wrote a graduation thesis on ML-based Lane Merge Coordination Model for connected vehicles with the use of 5th Generation Mobile Network.

Aleksandra

Junior UX/UI Designer

UX design and Product Design student at SWPS with a background in desktop publishing. She’s also got a degree from Wrocław University in Communication Design, Cultural Anthropology, and Musicology. She is always looking for something new and willing to explore and learn unfamiliar and different things. Ola is passionate about contemporary music, opera and rope skipping.

Alina

Senior Psychometrician

Alina has great experience in the assessments industry. She studied Psychology at Oles Honchar National University and Social Sciences at the Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She has 5 kids, an entrepreneurial spirit and is passionate about revision and innovation in psychometrics.

Blazej

Psychometrics Lead

Błażej leads our psychometrics work and is a Lecturer at SWPS in stats, math and psychometrics. He also runs the experimental research lab at SWPS, has a rich background in psychological research in academia and with private companies, also around experience design and data visualization. Avid marathon runner!

Kacper

Full-stack Developer

Engineering student at the Warsaw University of Technology (PW). Worked with Flower Co (YC) startup in SV and on freelance projects. He loves creating complex backend software suited for rapidly changing environments. He hopes to create a channel with educational content suited for NodeJS beginners sometime in the future.

Kamil

Senior Software Engineer

Kamil is a full-stack/back end developer with cool experiences in developing microservices, distributed computing, GCP and Typescript. Kamil got his CS degree from the Poznan University of Technology.

Mariusz

Front-end Lead Developer

A self-taught front-end developer and social psychologist who studied at SWPS. Mariusz is our first employee at Gyfted and has held out with us through this early ride (!), and is an avid wine connoisseur and proud new dad!

Marta

Operations Assistant

Passionate freelance photographer with significant Recruiting & Talent, Assistant and Office Manager experience, in the past in Poland and Ireland with companies small and large. She loves to travel, winter sports and long walks with her cute dog Dalmatian. Happy mother of two.

Olena

Data Science

Postgraduate student in Data Visualization at the Warsaw University of Technology and MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Warsaw. While working as Laboratory Assistant in the Polish Academy of Science, Olena has been into neuroscience and cognitive functions research, and now decided to switch to a more technical role. Big fan of statistics and Nassim Nicolas Taleb.

Robert

CEO, Co-founder

A mission-driven, creative, rebellious optimist with experience in pre-seed to growth startup in Silicon Valley, finance and policy. Grew enterprise sales at OpenGov, built the EU’s first p2p election matching app over a decade ago, worked on labor, tax and R&D reforms for the former President of Poland. He’s also worked on and is passionate about bitcoin. Stanford GSB and London School of Economics graduate.