Wiktor Gala

St. Louis, MO / Kraków, Poland

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Work

Rexi Finance

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

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

Software Engineer (Contract)

Apr 2025 - May 2025

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

Lead Software Engineer

May 2024 - Aug 2024

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

Alavisa

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.
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Markly

Role-based assessment platform

2025

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.
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WashUCal

Course scheduling platform

2024

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.
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Competitions

Apple

Swift Student Challenge Winner

2022

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

Accelerator Alumni

2022

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.
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Volunteering

Ivy Ukraine

Founding Member & Developer

2022

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

Wharton Global Youth 2022

Leadership in the Business World

Philadelphia, PA

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.

Yale Young Global Scholars 2022

Solving Global Challenges

New Haven, CT Remote due to COVID

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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