# Yaroslav Markin

## Entrepreneur, fractional CTO, consultant

<span class="tag">[Available for projects](#contact)</span>

<address class="global-location">Worldwide remote from Dubai, UAE</address>

**Previously**: founded <span class="evil_martians">[Evil Martians](https://evilmartians.com)</span> in 2006 and served as CTO.

> Evil Martians transform growth-stage startups into unicorns, build developer tools, and create open source products.
>
> Over the last 18 years, we've helped startups solve their technical challenges, ship faster and more reliably, build their teams, and raise new rounds of funding. 8 of them became unicorns.
>
> Across more than 100 open source projects, we have 25B+ total downloads.


## Recent posts

- [Bundlebun bundles Bun, and a tour of asset pipelines and JavaScript runtimes Rails has been through](/posts/bundlebun-bundles-bun.md) — Bundlebun is a Bun bundler for Rails. The why, the how, and a tour of every asset pipeline and JavaScript runtime Rails has been through to get here.

## Press

- [Evil Martians: How developers help startups to take off (and how much they earn doing that)](https://web.archive.org/web/20200318152645/https://incrussia.ru/fly/evil-martians/) (Inc. Russia)
- [IT specialist on how the Internet will survive the Crisis: Remote work, skills development, and automation of everything](http://www.lookatme.ru/mag/how-to/tops/211105-it-expert) (Look At Me magazine)
- [Evil Martians: the journey from two people in a cafe to offices in NYC, SF, and Osaka](https://vc.ru/life/147200-zlye-marsiane-put-ot-dvuh-chelovek-v-kafe-do-ofisov-v-nyu-iorke-san-francisko-moskve-i-osake) (VC.ru)