# Artem Konovalov > Co-Founder @ DRO, Drostudio, Shorty App, Subtitly | Ex: Spellar AI, Raycast, Capture, Prisma, Sports.ru, ... Location: London, England, United Kingdom Profile: https://flows.cv/artemkonovalov ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ 1Feed Jan 2026 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom ### Co-Founder @ DRO: Drawing & Focus App Jan 2025 – Present Helping people build a calm, consistent drawing habit — with focused sessions that block distracting apps. # Like Duolingo but for Drawing Drawing ideas, Focus Mode helps to avoid distraction, streaks, socials and many more https://www.drawww.app/ https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/dro-focus-for-creativity/id6749725319 ### Co-Founder @ Drostudio: AI Canvas & Photo Editor Jan 2025 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom – Edit your photos with powerful AI tools – Select any area to retouch, replace, or enhance – Draw on the canvas and turn your sketch into a realistic image – Instantly generate professional-quality results from simple ideas https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/dro-ai-photo-editor-canvas/id6473738550 ### Co-Founder @ Shorty App Jan 2025 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom Automate Your Distribution. Create viral TikTok and Reels for your product with our AI Avatars and Hooks. Enter product link or description → get 300+ viral videos at once. Our iOS app is dedicated to founders, indie hackers, business owners, and more. https://apps.apple.com/app/ai-avatar-generator-shorty/id6740459051 ### Co-Founder @ Subtitly App Jan 2024 – Present Realtime captions + translation across iPhone, iPad & Mac (offline + on-device privacy). Helping people follow every word in calls, videos, and real-life conversations. ### CPO & Co-Founder @ Spellar AI Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | London, England, United Kingdom The only native AI Meeting Copilot for MacOS – not only a note-taker but a true realtime Copilot. The app assists in the meeting, answers any question, even generates relevant ice-breakers. It facilitates brainstorms in Miro, creates customisable summaries in Notion / Craft / Google Docs, assigns tasks in Linear and gives English feedback to improve professional communication ### Software Engineer @ Raycast Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | London Area, United Kingdom Raycast is an impressively fast, fully extendable, and robust launcher for macOS. Key highlights of my experience with Raycast include: • Seed round with $2.7M from Accel • Joined as the 5th member to work on the macOS application, the team has grown up to 20 people 🙌 • Raised Series A with $15M from Accel and Coatue • Transitioning from macOS development to work on a new project API, enabling end-users to expand the existing Raycast app. Specific achievements in this area include: • Conducting research on the API system, including a custom reconciliation system between the native Swift macOS component and the React + Node component. This involved a custom solution similar to ReactNative/react-dom/vadimdemedes-ink. • Collaborating with a colleague to implement a solution that became the cornerstone of the API and Store ecosystems' future success. • Developed a Spotify Player as a demonstration of the Raycast API's capabilities. This development was very well received and swiftly gained popularity among users, now boasting over 5,000 monthly active users (MAU). • Utilizing the Objective-C Runtime to create a straightforward and elegant solution for integrating the emoji picker into any app. ### Co-Founder, Founding Engineer @ Capture Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States Community-first oriented messenger. Capture enables everyone to find topics to discuss in real-time, form groups and get feedback instantly. Backed by General Catalyst, KPCB, Floodgate & Dream Machine VC. https://capture.chat/ ### iOS Developer @ Prisma Labs, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Moscow, Russia • Best App of 2016 according to Google • Best App of 2016 according to Apple • #1 app in 77 countries • Over 3,000 Media Publications • Over 111 Million organically-generated downloads We help companies solve their issues with the help of our AI-powered technologies. ### CTO & Co-Founder @ Grandpaper Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | St Petersburg City, Russia ### iOS Developer @ CleverPumpkin Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | St Petersburg City, Russia Sports.ru applications ### Software Engineer & Co-founder @ Stickerface Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Saint Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia In Junction 2016 hackathon, we developed a product named Jarvis. Based on Jarvis' idea we created Stickerface - the product generates a cartoon character sticker depicting the user, attired in Non-Fungible Token (NFT) wearables and accessories. This avatar can then be used in a variety of applications, including games, apps, and social networks. I developed the first versions of the iOS client for the project. ### CTO & Co-Founder @ Mininglife Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia • Developed mininglife.ru website for the Mining Universite (Saint-Petersburg) • Developed an iOS application for the website • Introduced interactive schedule of classes for students –– The website is not supported since 2017 🤷‍♂️ ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Information Technology Project Management National mineral resources university (University of mines) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mattisssa --- Source: https://flows.cv/artemkonovalov JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/artemkonovalov/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05