Alexey Taktarov
| Alexey Taktarov | |
| Occupation | Software engineer, entrepreneur |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founder and CTO of Fira |
| Education | Southern Federal University (MSc, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science) |
Alexey Taktarov is a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the founder and chief technology officer of Fira, an artificial intelligence-powered financial research platform for investment firms, which was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.[1]
Career
Taktarov holds a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Southern Federal University in Russia. He also studied as an exchange student in Intelligent and Embedded Systems at Halmstad University (Högskolan i Halmstad) in Sweden.
Taktarov has worked as a full-stack web engineer and engineering leader for over 15 years. He maintains open-source software projects, including wouter, a minimalist router library for React and Preact that has accumulated over 5,000 stars on GitHub. He has also spoken at technology conferences.
In 2016, Taktarov co-founded resume.io, an online platform for job seekers that became one of the leading CV builder applications, with over 35 million resumes built. He served as head of engineering, designing the product's architecture and assembling the engineering department. Resume.io was acquired by Talent Inc. in 2021. Taktarov continued with the company until September 2022.
In November 2024, Taktarov founded Fira, which he describes as an "agentic AI analyst" for financial research. The platform is designed to allow professionals at investment firms to delegate financial research tasks to an AI system. Fira provides capabilities including trading comparables analysis, equity value-to-enterprise value bridge calculations, and cross-referencing of financial data against SEC filings and earnings releases. The platform comes preloaded with market data and public filings and can connect to cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, and Box. It is built to process complex financial documents, Excel files, and charts.[2]
Fira was accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 (W25) cohort.
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