Vlatko Stojkoski
I’ve been shipping software since 2018. CTO of an AI accessibility startup by my last year of high school. Now building hardware at Duke.
Looking for Summer 2027 internships in hands-on engineering, software, or product.
- CTO, EaseAccess24, 2024–26
- NASA Space Apps Global Nominee, 587 of 5,556
- National informatics prizes, 6 years running
- YC Startup School 2026, San Francisco
- EUROINVENT gold ×2
Work
- CTO · EaseAccess24Sep 2024 – Jul 2026
AI web accessibility startup · Remote
Ran engineering at an AI web accessibility startup. I wrote the 2024 prototype on my own, then the first versions of the embeddable widget, the customer platform and the site crawler, and ran the engineering team and production until July 2026.
- Full-stack developer (contract) · theCodrs2023–2024
Software agency · Remote
Contract full-stack work on client apps for a remote software agency, while in high school. I built the sign-in flows for a scholarship-funds app on AWS Cognito and wrote 112 of its 567 commits, on a team of six.
- Co-founder · WebiraySep 2022 – Sep 2023
A two-person web studio, with a friend · Skopje
A two-person web studio with a friend, for our freelance work in high school. I built client sites end to end, including one that is still live, and wrote our static-site generator, deploys and pricing calculator.
Leadership
- Executive Board member · Union of High School Students of North MacedoniaJun 2021 – Sep 2024
The national high-school students' union · Skopje
The national union of North Macedonia's high-school students. Three years on its board: head of web and graphic design, then Secretary-General (2023), then chair of the Civic Education Commission. One of five authors of its 2023 white paper on compulsory civic education, and I built and ran its website.
- Co-founder · VozikayNov 2023 – Mar 2024
A ride-sharing app for North Macedonia · Skopje
A ride-sharing app for North Macedonia, started by five high-school students; I built the app. 3rd place at Climathon Skopje 2023, which earned six months in CEED Hub's accelerator. Also taken into StartUp Club Skopje's incubator, and a gold medal at ASEF 2024.
- Co-organizer · Jam of Music (Џем од Музика)Jul 2024 – Sep 2024
A charity song-writing festival for young bands · Skopje
A charity song-writing festival for young bands. I ran the team's meetings, designed the promo with a friend, and built the site and the audience's live phone vote.
Programs
- Startup School 2026 · Y CombinatorJul 2026
Accepted to YC's Startup School 2026: two days in person at Chase Center, San Francisco.
Education
- B.S.E. Electrical and Computer Engineering · Duke University2025–2029
Pratt School of Engineering · Durham, North Carolina
Pratt School of Engineering, expected May 2029. Spending more time on hardware than I ever have.
- NASA Space Apps Challenge, Global Nominee2023For Aqua Pulse. One of 587 Global Nominees from 5,556 projects worldwide.
- National informatics competition, prize six years running2019–2024North Macedonia’s state round, the level below the national olympiad. Two 2nd prizes and four 3rd.
- ASEF gold medal2024For Vozikay. Albanian Science & Engineering Fair, Tirana.
- EUROINVENT gold medal, twice2022, 2023For FinSim. European exhibition of inventions in Iași, Romania; 712 entries from 34 countries in 2023.
- IGO computer science silver and bronze2022, 2023For FinSim. International Greenwich Olympiad, a student project competition run by a London school; 224 projects from 41 countries in 2023.
- Climathon Skopje, 3rd place2023For Vozikay. The top three teams went into CEED Hub’s six-month accelerator.
I’ve been shipping software since 2018. By my last year of high school I was CTO of EaseAccess24, an AI web accessibility startup. Now I study electrical and computer engineering at Duke and spend more time on hardware than I ever have.
At EaseAccess24 I wrote the first version of the product on my own, then ran the engineering team and production until July 2026. I work mostly in TypeScript, Next.js and PostgreSQL, and on the hardware side with ESP32 and Arduino firmware, CAD and 3D printing.
Before that: contract full-stack work for a software agency, a web studio with a friend, a ride-sharing startup, a NASA Space Apps Global Nominee project, and six years of national informatics prizes.
Looking for Summer 2027 internships in hands-on hardware engineering, software engineering, or product. US permanent resident.
This site looks like Windows 7 on purpose. The desk is a 3D model of my dorm desk.
