Danil Gontovnik
Recognition & Press

The record is the work.

For an engineer founder, credibility is built through shipped products, open source, real users, and companies that endure. Every entry links to its public source where available.

Every chapter led here.

Builder. Engineer. Open source. Founder. RHISE AI.

As a builder

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Anima AI
Technical Co-Founder & CTO. AI companion fighting loneliness, bootstrapped to 10M+ users and meaningful ARR. Acquired.
2024
Noji
Co-Founder & CTO. Spaced-repetition learning app with strong organic growth. Acquired by DelightRoom, maker of Alarmy.
2026
Stackt
Co-Founder & CTO. UCL-incubated (BaseKX) moving and storage platform. Raised over £1M.
2023
RHISE AI
Co-Founder & CTO. Building Lucie, an ethical AI Life OS designed to give people their lives back.
now

As an engineer

5
DGElasticPullToRefresh
Elastic pull-to-refresh control for iOS. Roughly 3.8k stars.
DGRunkeeperSwitch
Animated segmented control inspired by Runkeeper. Roughly 1.9k stars.
DGActivityIndicatorView
Collection of nice loading animations for iOS. Roughly 1.8k stars.
GitHub portfolio
Open source libraries adopted by developers worldwide.
Meta
Built consumer products used by hundreds of thousands of people every month.

Selected press

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UCL News
UCL startup Stackt raises over £1 million to grow its business.
2023
PR Newswire
Alarmy maker DelightRoom acquires profitable learning app Noji.
2026
Crunchbase
Public company record documenting ventures, exits, and engineering work.
HackerNoon & Medium
Engineering articles and open source tutorials read by developers worldwide.
GitHub
Open-source portfolio, tens of thousands of combined stars.
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Built alongside world class investors, founders, and operators who backed the journey from open source engineer to founder.

Every link points to a public source documenting the work. The record continues to grow.