IUSTIN TARGOVET
AMSTERDAM
ENGINEERING LEADER
PROFILE

Engineering leader and founder with deep analytics and AI-product experience, and a strong track record of scaling teams, systems, and organizations in high-reliability, revenue-critical environments. Trusted advisor to executive and board-level stakeholders; experienced in organizational design, conflict resolution, and cross-company execution while remaining deeply technical.

EXPERIENCE
FastnedEngineering Manager - Charging & RoamingNOV 2024 - PRESENT - AMSTERDAM, NL
  • Led and restructured Protocols into two autonomous teams: Charging (OCPP, 99.9% uptime, market-leading reliability) and Roaming (logic and charge cards processing 80-90% of Fastned's EUR 122.4M 2025 revenue).
  • Improved delivery predictability and team health by resolving long-standing conflicts, introducing continuous feedback loops, and establishing a strong ownership and learning culture.
  • Led and facilitated architecture, domain design, timeline, and delivery alignment for Fastned's largest transformation: the transition from CPO to MSP.
  • Founded and led the internal AI initiatives, accelerating adoption of AI tooling through workshops, dashboards, and cost-optimized usage, reducing lead times and delivery effort across engineering by an order of magnitude.
  • Consistently rated Outstanding across innovation, collaboration, technical leadership, and human skills; recognized as a go-to leader for high-impact, ambiguous challenges.
DataPrysmCo-Founder & CEOAPR 2025 - SEP 2026 - LONDON / AMSTERDAM / REMOTE
  • Co-founded an agentic analytics platform that gives business users decision-ready insights from their data in natural language; owned product, architecture, and analytics/data modeling with a two-person team.
  • Took the product through a YC interview, close to 100 discovery calls, 50 demos and 6 pilots to first paying customers, plus a distribution partnership with a pipeline of 300 clients to onboard; responsibilities spanned engineering, product, sales, demos, and contract negotiation.
  • Secured a distribution partnership for the product, then became their consultancy partner across their 300 clients.
  • Product path ended Dec 2025 when the two-person, part-time team could not go full time together; ran the company as a data and AI consultancy for legacy SaaS (MCP layers, data pipelines) and wound it down in 2026. The big AI labs shipped the platform's core functionality natively in Sep 2026.
Replica AICTOAUG 2024 - NOV 2024 - AMSTERDAM / REMOTE
  • Rebuilt the product and technical organization from scratch, owning architecture, infrastructure, execution, stakeholder management, and technical client interactions.
  • USD 300K ARR signed in 3 months; ran the technology, safety and data sessions with client technology teams that closed every contract.
Stream FinancialFounding EngineerJUN 2019 - FEB 2024 - LONDON / REMOTE
  • Founding engineer responsible for core system architecture across backend services, desktop applications, and pipelines.
  • Delivered major performance and reliability gains (up to 200% throughput and 80% faster deployments), enabling sustainable team and platform scaling.
  • Played a key role in client-facing delivery, technical leadership, and early team growth.
EDUCATION
University College London (UCL)BSc Computer Science2016 - 2019
FOR THE RECORD
  1. EUR 122.4M in 2025 revenue, 80-90% processed by the roaming systems I lead.
  2. USD 300K ARR product built from zero in 3 months.
  3. 99.9% uptime in charging-critical infrastructure.
  4. 14 engineers managed and mentored across four organizations.