Fullstack Developer · Founder · Bratislava
Matej Kuka Self-taught builder. Product thinker. I ship things that solve real problems and find the people worth building them with.
Self-taught builder. Product thinker. I ship things that solve real problems and find the people worth building them with.
We didn't win because we wrote better code.
We won because
we understood the problem better.
Hackathons taught me something I carry into every project - talk to the people with the problem before you write a single line. Map the real pain. And when the problem tells you your idea is wrong, be willing to let it go.
That's the foundation. The rest is startups - fast iterations, real constraints, products that have to work in the world, not just in a demo.
One result of that approach: a hackathon MVP that became Asistent Obstarávania - a live government procurement tool, deployed nationally.
I chose to learn by doing. No university, no bootcamp - just projects, problems, and figuring things out along the way.
At 18, I tried to build my first startup - a platform for planting trees in areas affected by natural disasters. Three months in, reality caught up with the idea.
My background runs across the full product lifecycle: business analysis, user research, QA, and fullstack engineering. That range is intentional - a technical co-founder needs to think across the whole company, not just the codebase.
What pulls me is the end to end - from the first conversation about a problem to a working product in people's hands. That's what led me to the technical co-founder path and eventually to starting Kouna.
Maybe the next thing worth building is yours.
Platform connecting Czech and Slovak founders with co-founders and early team members. Built and launched solo. I had the problem myself - 60+ users in a first month.
kouna.app →We placed second at the hackathon with an MVP focused on public procurement. The idea was strong enough that it kept going - the product was later built into a full production app, deployed nationally by the Slovak Public Procurement Office. I contributed as business analyst and QA - user research, wireframes, requirements, and product roadmap through to launch.
asistentobstaravania.sk →AI virtual assistant platform for contact center transformation. I contributed to a major frontend refactor and helped building the design system from scratch. Beyond that, I developed and maintained features across four core modules - Campaign Calls, Knowledge Base, a no-code flow editor for building AI assistant logic, and the main app built on microservice architecture.
borndigital.ai →Copenhagen-based SaaS platform - an operating system for running accelerators, incubators, and innovation programs. Used by Google, Stanford, the UN, and Bosch across 80+ countries. The platform manages everything from application funnels and program delivery to mentor matching, ecosystem collaboration, and impact tracking. I built and maintained frontend features for a production system at that scale.
babele.co →Want the full picture?
See the entire work - CVI build with AI,
not around it.
I work with Claude Code and Cursor daily. Kouna was built AI-natively from day one. I know when these tools give 10× speed and when not to trust them.
Not for generating code I don't understand - but for moving faster on the parts I do. The stack below reflects that.
If you're building something worth building and need someone who can handle the technical execution - let's talk.
