# Alex Vasylyk

> Alex Vasylyk is the Toronto-based CEO and co-founder of StartupSoft. He and his brother Andrew moved to Canada in 2004 and later launched the company in their hometown of Ternopil, Ukraine, in 2016. His public career includes earlier startup ventures, the Ukrainians.co social-network project and building engineering partnerships across North America and Europe.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-founder at StartupSoft
- **Organizations:** StartupSoft, Ukrainians.co, WatchRecruit, Safari Juice
- **Education:** York University
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads StartupSoft, which reports serving more than 100 clients internationally., StartupSoft reports growing from eight people at launch to a 170-person team., The Madefire engagement assembled five front-end and graphics engineers within six months, according to StartupSoft’s case study.

## Career timeline

- **2004** — Moved to Canada with his brother Andrew.
- **2007-2011** — Attended York University, as listed on his LinkedIn profile.
- **2012** — Entered entrepreneurship with Andrew, according to StartupSoft’s company history.
- **2016** — Co-founded StartupSoft in Ternopil, Ukraine, with an initial team of eight.
- **2017** — Co-founded Ukrainians.co; StartupSoft handled the social network’s development. WeStrive also became an early StartupSoft client.
- **2018** — StartupSoft began its Madefire client engagement.
- **2019** — StartupSoft expanded to Lviv.
- **2022** — Alex and Andrew created the Ukraine in Our Hearts fundraising initiative.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads StartupSoft, which reports serving more than 100 clients internationally.
- StartupSoft reports growing from eight people at launch to a 170-person team.
- The Madefire engagement assembled five front-end and graphics engineers within six months, according to StartupSoft’s case study.

## Latest updates

- **2023-03** — StartupSoft launched its Teams Digest on Product Hunt, offering a monthly selection of 40+ available technical candidates.
- **2026-10** — At the research date, StartupSoft’s website continues to list Alex as CEO and co-founder and advertises human-generated coding data and LLM finetuning services. This is a current-site observation, not a dated company announcement.

## Links

- Website: https://vasylyk.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexvasylyk/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/vasylyk_alex

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Last updated: 2026-10-21