Kostandin Angjellari

Full-Stack Engineer & Founder | Nodejs | React | AI

10 years building across SaaS, Fintech, Multimedia, and lately AI. Co-founded Quinvio, an AI video presentation platform that grew to 25K users and 500+ paying customers. Love leading engineering teams, bridging product and code, and craft from 0 to 1.

Work Experience

Senior Full-Stack Engineer - TrustLayer | Sep 2024 - Sep 2025

  • Built end-to-end features in a ShapeUp workflow as the platform was scaling.
  • Contributed on evolving the stack with additions such as Postgres, Drizzle, Remix and Temporal.

Product Engineer - Cofactory | Sep 2023 - Mar 2024

  • Led a team of 3 full-stack engineers on building RAG with LangChain, Next.js, Qdrant, Postgres.
  • Worked closely with the founders/PO to take AI products quickly to market.

Co-founder - Quinvio | Mar 2021 - Jul 2024

  • Bootstrapped AI video platform to 25K users and 500+ paying customers.
  • Designed multimedia AI pipeline and rich React/Node.js video editor.
  • Led product initiatives, user research, and partnerships to drive growth.

Engineering Lead, Core Team - Ritech | Aug 2018 - Jun 2021

  • Co-led fintech platform aggregator integrating multiple US financial vendors.
  • Built WebRTC / Frontend infrastructure for video conferencing platform.
  • Established engineering standards and processes to improve team efficiency.

Engineering Lead - Softup Technologies | Nov 2017 - Aug 2018

  • Migrated legacy HR SaaS platform to Node.js & GraphQL.
  • Defined engineering standards, CI/CD pipelines, and code review practices.

Senior Backend Engineer - Airfind | May 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Built AdTech products in scale for OEMs including ZTE and USCellular.
  • Improved platform performance 30% via Redis, MongoDB, and task queues.

Engineering Lead - Prius Solutions | May 2015 - May 2016

  • Led a team of 5, delivering B2B platforms in Java EE, AngularJS, PostgreSQL.
  • Shipped 5 SaaS and B2C products for local and regional market.

Full-Stack Developer - Techmobile | May 2014 - May 2015

  • Built ERP solutions with Java EE for enterprises like Vodafone and Eni.
  • Built and maintained vanilla javascript library for building dynamic forms.

Skills

Languages:

  • TypeScript, Go, Python

Frameworks:

  • Node, React, Next, Remix, GraphQL

Databases:

  • PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Qdrant

Messaging:

  • RabbitMQ, BullMQ, SQS, Kafka, Temporal

Cloud/DevOps:

  • AWS, GCP, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm

AI/ML:

  • LangChain, LlamaIndex, LLMs, Claude Code, SDD, RAG

Other:

  • Engineering leadership, Product Strategy, Startups

Education

  • Studied Computer Science, University of Tirana (2012-2015)