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Iulian's Background and Path to CTO
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Shane invites Iulian to introduce himself properly, and the result is the kind of honest career narrative that resonates with every developer who has taken the long road to a title. Iulian has been a software engineer for 13 years, more than half of which have been spent at MrQ. Before that, he moved through large corporates — stints at Gamesys, time in smart housing, time in banking — searching for a fit that never quite materialised. After six years of that, he was hungry to start something of his own but admits it was probably too complicated a move at that stage. Instead, he found MrQ and its two founding directors, Sava and Oded, through Lindar — MrQ's parent company — and immediately sensed the opportunity. It's a story about knowing when to take the right risk rather than the biggest one, and it sets the cultural tone for everything that follows.
MrQ was founded in September 2015 but did not launch to the public until 2018, spending the intervening years bootstrapping and doing other projects to fund development.
MrQ was never conceived as an online casino. From day one, the founders' ambition was to build a data-driven technology company that operated in the gambling space — born out of frustration with clunky white-label platforms that couldn't surface real-time player data.
