{
  "name": "Geart Ferhati",
  "url": "https://geartferhati.com",
  "now": "San Francisco. Entrepreneur in Residence, Entrepreneurs First (The Bridge). Building the next company.",
  "location": "San Francisco, California",
  "origin": "Tirana, Albania",
  "before": [
    {
      "role": "AI Automation Engineer",
      "org": "UVC Partners (B2B venture capital, Munich, $1B+ AUM)",
      "since": "2025-12",
      "building": "production AI agents and data infrastructure for the fund's Value Creation and investment teams; ~75% team efficiency gain"
    }
  ],
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    "degree": "B.Sc. Management & Technology (computer engineering focus)",
    "school": "Technical University of Munich",
    "years": "2025-2028"
  },
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      "name": "I-VOTE",
      "years": "2022-2023",
      "age": 15,
      "city": "Tirana",
      "what": "digital student government elections platform, first in South-East Europe",
      "users": 30000,
      "schools": 85,
      "exit": "acquired by the Council of Europe, 2023"
    },
    {
      "name": "Suapr",
      "years": "2023-2025",
      "age": 17,
      "city": "Tirana",
      "what": "AI-powered learning platform",
      "users": 57000,
      "countries": 3,
      "team": 8,
      "grant": "EUR 35,000 government research funding"
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "title": "HackaTUM Reply Challenge winner",
      "by": "Technical University of Munich",
      "field": "1,000+ participants"
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "title": "Top 5 Western Balkans Startups",
      "by": "ACTI",
      "field": "200+ startups"
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "title": "Top 10 Global Startups",
      "by": "Get in the Ring"
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "title": "Top 5 Startups",
      "by": "Keiretsu Forum Angel Network",
      "field": "150+ investors"
    },
    {
      "year": 2023,
      "title": "1st place, International Python Coding Contest",
      "field": "300+ senior programmers"
    }
  ],
  "talks": [
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "event": "World Forum for Democracy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg",
      "role": "panelist"
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "event": "Google DevFest, Tirana",
      "role": "keynote: Integration of AI in Education"
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "event": "Summer Camp on E-Democracy, Council of Europe, Tirana",
      "role": "workshop leader"
    },
    {
      "year": 2025,
      "event": "EU Mobility Trip, Spain",
      "role": "speaker and workshop leader"
    }
  ],
  "roles": [
    "Vice President & Head of Digitalization Commission, Albanian Youth Parliament (2023-present)"
  ],
  "coding_since": "age 11, self-taught",
  "skills": [
    "Python",
    "JavaScript",
    "PHP",
    "C#",
    "SQL",
    "AWS",
    "Salesforce",
    "AI agents",
    "automation"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en",
    "de",
    "sq"
  ],
  "more": {
    "llms": "https://geartferhati.com/llms.txt"
  },
  "contact": {
    "call": "https://cal.com/geartferhati",
    "email": "geart.ferhati@tum.de",
    "linkedin": "https://linkedin.com/in/geartferhati"
  }
}