The best network feature is still a reason to come back next week.
Lana builds the infrastructure behind StartCoLink's activity feed, matching hints, and the parts of the stack that need to stay fast as the community grows. She's based in Berlin and contributes to open-source libraries on the side.
She joined after maintaining matching prototypes that looked impressive in demos and broke the moment real users had messy, incomplete profiles. Her bias now: ship small signals, measure retention, iterate.
When she's not coding, she hosts a monthly build night for engineers exploring AI tooling without the hype deck.
Path so far
A short arc—not a résumé dump. Dates are approximate where early work overlapped.
2022 – present
Engineering lead, StartCoLink
Full-stack development, matching infrastructure, and performance work.
2019 – 2022
Backend engineer, ML-adjacent startup
Built recommendation pipelines and data models for a B2B discovery product.
On StartCoLink
Launches and events Lana has shared with the community.