Wiktor Gala
St. Louis, MO / Kraków, Poland
Work
Rexi is a VC-backed startup ($1.1M seed) building an AI-powered operational intelligence platform for financial data.
- Built and deployed Next.js dashboards, admin panels, and org workflows integrated with FastAPI services on AWS.
- Developed Python-based transaction reconciliation pipelines to process high-volume records and generate reconciliation cases validated via Celery execution.
- Redesigned rules builder, case management, and org-management flows; implemented audit logging with revert capability to meet compliance and traceability requirements.
- Led 5+ client-facing technical demos and collaborated with client engineers to deliver POCs automating regulatory reconciliation tasks.
Twine Ventures is an early-stage VC (~$100M AUM) investing in mission-driven startups across human health, climate, and financial empowerment.
- Engineered a Next.js + Supabase sourcing intelligence tool to parse and score potential founders from LinkedIn.
- Deployed automated workflows with Trigger.dev and Vercel AI SDK, reducing lead review from days to under a minute for ~300 leads.
- Built analyst dashboards to review, approve/reject, and organize leads in a polished internal UI.
Ivy Consultants is an education consulting firm with offices in London and Warsaw; 150+ employees and 250+ clients.
- Built an internal employee portal as the sole technical owner for a platform used by 150+ staff.
- Built and shipped a unified platform (Next.js, Supabase/Postgres, Tailwind, Vercel) consolidating time tracking, payroll, and client data.
- Automated reporting and payroll with Supabase Edge Functions and Resend, saving ~10 hrs/week, and designed secure Postgres schemas with RLS and vector search.
Education
- B.S. in Computer Science
- Dean's List
- Relevant coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Data Manipulation & Management, Intro to Data Science, Rapid Prototype Development, AI & Society, Computer Security, Intro to AI, Systems Software, Parallel Programming, Computer Engineering, Web Development.
- Also took a bunch of math classes (Calculus, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math, Probability, Statistics).
V Liceum Ogólnokształcące
2019 - 2023
Bielsko-Biała, Poland
- Advanced coursework in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science.
- Matura exams: Computer Science, Mathematics, and English (extended level).
Projects
Client project (ongoing)
Alavisa is an AI-powered platform that streamlines the student visa application process for a client (working with Harvard Business School founders).
- Developed the product in Next.js and integrated LLM-based document intelligence to extract and validate applicant data.
- Automated DS-160 form filing using Trigger.dev and Browserbase web automation, saving users 90+ minutes per application.
- Implemented Stripe payments, Better Auth authentication, Convex workflows, and Resend transactional emails; added Crisp and Vercel Analytics for product telemetry and funnel monitoring.
Markly is a role-based assessment platform built with Next.js, Convex, Trigger.dev, Clerk, and TypeScript for exam ingestion, grading workflows, and student/instructor portals.
- Built a PDF ingestion pipeline that uploads exams, runs Trigger.dev background jobs with retry handling to convert and parse documents, and persists normalized exam-question mappings in Convex for instructor review and approval.
- Implemented role-based grading workflows with instructor-authored rubrics, AI-assisted pre-grading, assignment submissions, and regrade requests with a full audit trail across student, instructor, and admin permissions.
WashUCal is a course scheduling platform built with Next.js, Supabase/Postgres, Vercel, and Cloudflare.
- Implemented a Trigger.dev ELT pipeline to ingest and preprocess unstructured data for ~300 courses and 1,000+ reviews, normalizing it into Postgres for fast search and filtering.
- Strengthened security and performance with RLS, optimized server-side queries, and layered DDoS + reCAPTCHA protection, achieving 100/100 Vercel Speed Insights.
Competitions
Apple's Swift Student Challenge is a global student developer competition; selected as a winner and invited to Apple Park.
- Built an iPad game using on-device YOLO object detection to prompt timed searches for household items, designed to reinforce prospective memory impacted during pandemic stay-at-home routines.
- Engineered a Swift/SwiftUI + Core ML edge-AI experience delivering real-time, offline inference.
Replit Ventures is a startup accelerator and investment program; received $10k in funding to continue building Mentee.
- Created Mentee, a peer-to-peer tutoring app with session booking, messaging, reviews, and Stripe Connect payouts.
- Built the product in Swift/SwiftUI with Firebase and was the sole Eastern European team among ~150 startups representing 25+ countries.
Volunteering
Volunteer-built platform launched in March 2022 to connect Ukrainian students and refugees with free tutoring and mentorship.
- Helped develop and maintain the platform website, with a focus on backend workflows, user security, and reliable access for students and volunteer tutors.
- Supported a program that publicly reports 50+ tutors, 140+ tutor-student matches, and 230+ completed lessons, offering free academic support across core subjects in Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, and English.
- Featured in Onet.pl, Business Insider, NASHAPolsha.
Programs
Three-week immersive Wharton pre-college program focused on business fundamentals, organizational strategy, and leadership development.
- Completed team-based projects, simulations, debates, and a capstone case competition applying core frameworks such as SWOT analysis, Porter's Five Forces, and value-chain thinking to real business scenarios.
Two-week Yale academic program centered on cross-disciplinary problem-solving for major global issues of the 21st century.
- Studied challenges tied to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, including global health, poverty, and environmental sustainability, through seminar-style discussions and collaborative problem solving.
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