Our team.
Our growing team brings a unique combination of industry experience, technical and functional expertise, and airline relationships.
Stéphane Pingaud
The idea behind flyiin dates back to 2004, when Stéphane was heading airline distribution strategy at Amadeus. As the original founder of flyiin, he can finally bring his idea to life, and with this talented team of engineers and product specialists, drive the modernization of an industry that badly needs it.
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Montie Brewer
No need to introduce Montie (to our industry peers). Montie is the former CEO of Air Canada and sits on the boards of Allegiant and Finnair. He’s also a recognized thought-leader in airline distribution, and has been a close and invaluable advisor since the early days of flyiin.
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Yury Gargay
Yury was our first software engineer to get on-board, after gaining a wealth of experience in Elixir, Erlang and building production systems. Yury is playing an essential role in building our platform’s foundations in order to meet the needs of our customers in terms of reliability, speed and flexibility.
Abel Mesfin Cherinet
Abel recently graduated from the University of Tartu, Estonia, where he completed a Master in Software Engineering. His interest in functional programming, and more specifically Elixir, makes him a great match to flyiin.
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Kanmaniselvan Murugesan
After getting his hands dirty with Ruby on Rails, Kanmani moved to Elixir as his main language, which he helped expand as the core tech stack at his former employer LIQID. Kanmani brings his experience in Elixir, his knowledge of API design, and more, for the benefit of the team.
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Zack Dean
A veteran of the US Army, Zack transitioned to the world of software programming ten years ago and has been working on a multitude of projects, including some on behalf of Lufthansa. His deep understanding of XML made the ideal next team member, as we are navigating the varying complexities of airline XML APIs, and making sense of them.
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Dániel Vámosi
As flyiin’s technical co-founder, Dániel has been getting his hands dirty with airline APIs for quite a few years already, allowing him to design an architecture that will make our Airline DirectConnect Platform unique and superior in the increasingly crowded airline content aggregator space.
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Dzvinka Mytsyk
Sr. Technical Product Manager
Dzvenyslava brings to flyiin twelve years of experience in system analysis and product management. That experience along with her knowledge of agile methodologies, enable us to establish the processes required to deliver and accelerate platform feature development and airline API integrations.
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Catharina Schulze
Head of People & Operations
Catharina is not a stranger to the start up scene, coming from a Berlin-based gaming start up where she helped build the foundations and grow it to a 40+ people company. As we’ve been transitioning from a two men shop to a multi- disciplinary and growing team, her experience is certainly a great asset to flyiin.
Eleni Lixourioti
Eleni comes to flyiin with a solid experience in developing platforms, APIs and games; whilst working closely with product teams and clients. Having been part of the early days of a startup herself, she knows well what is required in building products that can scale.
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Lei Shi
Joining us from the city of Chengdu in China, Lei offers a solid 10 year experience in software engineering gained with a number of international companies (Myriad Group) and startups (Ripple, Axel) as well as a freelancer. His expertise in multiple back- and front-end programming makes him a great addition to the team.
Khaoula Midani
Khaoula joined flyiin as our first Sales & Account Manager, bringing a wealth of experience acquired at both SaaS startups (Nintex, Janrain, Boardvantage …) and larger telecom companies (Vodafone, HTC, Nuance...). A welcome addition to the team as we’re deploying our platform to travel channels and looking to build up a solid customer-focused organization.
