Martin Gontovnikas

CEO

Berkeley, California, United States18 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in combining engineering and marketing strategies.
  • Key player in driving Auth0's growth to unicorn status.
  • Advises multiple startups on growth and marketing strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Growth and Marketing Expert with a strong engineering background.

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AngularJSCRMContent DevelopmentContent MarketingContent WritingCustomer Lifecycle ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Demand GenerationDesign PatternsDigital MarketingEntrepreneurshipIdentity ManagementInbound MarketingJavaJavaScript

About

Martin Gontovnikas, a.k.a Gonto, is a software engineer at heart that moved to the “dark side” to focus on Marketing. With this career transition, he found a way to combine his 2 passions by applying his “engineering thinking” model to Marketing. He is now a B2B SaaS Advisor to Vercel and Retool among others and General Partner of Hypergrowth Partners. Previously, he was SVP of Marketing and Growth at Auth0. As a software engineer, Gonto built a framework for AngularJS called Restangular that eventually became popular and is used today by companies like weather.com, Reuters, CNN, and others. During this process, he realized that he really enjoyed making Restangular popular, by creating content for his blog, answering questions in StackOverflow, and speaking at events, more than he had enjoyed actually building the framework. The “dark side was calling .... Thanks to his engineering roots, Gonto is a very analytical person that loves creating new experiments to continuously accelerate his customers’ revenue growth. When not helping other companies with growth and marketing, Gonto can be found enjoying gourmet food at new restaurants, having beers with friends at every local brewery he can find, and traveling the globe in search of new experiences. You can follow him on Twitter (@mgonto) or read his (not so frequent) blog posts on his website.

Experience

N8n

Growth Advisor

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos

  • I'm helping n8n build up their growth product team and improve their onboarding and user retention.

Braintrust

Growth Advisor

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos

  • I'm helping Braintrust with Product Growth (on boarding + feature discoverability) and their PLG marketing strategy.

Scrunch ai

Growth Advisor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

  • I help Scrunch with creative growth strategies and tactics to acquire and convert new users.

Airops

Growth Advisor

Sep 2024Apr 2025 · 7 mos

  • I'm helping AirOps with their Growth, Product, and Marketing Strategy and Tactics

Neon

Growth Advisor

Aug 2024Jul 2025 · 11 mos

  • I'm helping Neon.tech with Growth Product and Growth Marketing. I'm helping them improve their conversion from free accounts to self service paid accounts and increase the new free accounts from icp companies.

Vercel

2 roles

Interim CMO

Dec 2023May 2024 · 5 mos

  • I ran marketing and growth in Vercel while the current head of marketing is on leave.

Growth & Marketing Advisor

Jul 2021Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • I advise Vercel on their GTM strategy. I'm helping them craft and execute a top-down strategy that targets Director/VP of Product Management and Engineering. At the same time, I'm helping them double down, and optimize their product-led growth (PLG) strategy with developers.
  • Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance.

Retool

Growth Advisor

Sep 2023Jul 2024 · 10 mos

  • I advise Retool on marketing startegy, developer marketing and product growth programs.

Deepgram

Marketing Advisor

Apr 2023Apr 2024 · 1 yr

  • I advise Deepgram on all things Marketing, specially focused on DevRel, PLG, Demand Gen and Product Marketing.
  • I also act as the head of marketing during the CMO's paternity leave

Ashby

Growth Advisor

Apr 2023Jan 2024 · 9 mos

  • I advise Ashby on Marketing Strategy and Demand Gen

Madrona

Madrona Scout

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • I'm a Madrona scout looking for great companies and awesome founders to invest in.

Clerk.com

Growth Advisor

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • I advise Clerk.dev on Product growth, including strategies to improve activation, retention and conversion. I also advise the team on marketing strategies to acquire developers

Spot.ai ltd.

GTM Advisor

Sep 2022May 2023 · 8 mos

  • I advise Spot.ai on their GTM strategy including outbound strategy, GTM planning, and team structure.

Tenderly

Marketing Advisor

Apr 2022Sep 2022 · 5 mos

  • I'm helping Tenderly craft its new positioning and messaging that encompasses all of its products and features. This includes helping with the messaging doc, landing pages, launch plan, partnerships, etc.

Airbyte

Growth and Marketing Advisor

Mar 2022Mar 2023 · 1 yr

  • I advise Airbyte on developer marketing, outbound, growth marketing, and activation and retention for their product.

Rev

Growth & Marketing Advisor

May 2021May 2022 · 1 yr

  • I'm in charge of building Rev's GTM and Growth strategy for their new product rev.ai with help of their product, marketing, and sales teams.
  • rev.ai is a the most accurate speech-to-text API that developers can use!

Lessonly

Growth & Marketing Advisor

Mar 2021Aug 2021 · 5 mos

  • I advise Kyle Lacy (CMO of Lessonly) on GTM Strategy, organizational structure, and product-led growth initiatives

Auth0

2 roles

Marketing Advisor

Feb 2021Apr 2021 · 2 mos

SVP, Marketing & Growth

May 2020Jan 2021 · 8 mos

  • I am the leader of the Marketing team at Auth0 (80+ employees). I'm responsible for helping create the marketing strategy that allows Auth0 to double its annual recurring revenue (ARR) every year. I'm responsible for building a team of marketers and designers who define Auth0’s go to market strategy and create the messaging framework that will be used to communicate Auth0’s brand and value proposition to the marketplace.
  • The marketing team was responsible for 82% of the revenue that Auth0 generated in 2018 and 2019.
  • I'm a key member of the senior leadership team (SLT) and play a significant role in achieving the company’s most important goals and top priorities, all while exhibiting its core values.
  • I'm part of core early team that drove launch and explosive growth to unicorn status.

Hypergrowth partners

B2B SaaS Advisor and General Partner

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • We help B2B startups grow faster in exchange for equity. We help startups with GTM, specifically focused on Product-Led Growth, ABM Outbound, and Automated outbound.
  • We are a team of senior (VP, SVP) B2B marketers with significant experience at high-growth startups (Segment, Vercel, Cohere, Auth0, Atlassian, Scale.ai).

Puppet

Advisor

Feb 2020Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

  • I advise Puppet on go to market and growth strategy for Relay, a new product that will revolutionize the DevOps industry, through event driven automation and powerful integrations

Auth0

4 roles

VP, Product

Sep 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr

  • As the VP of Product, I create the vision and strategy of how the Auth0 product roadmap will evolve in the future, making sure that it’s aligned with market needs and the company strategy. I'm in charge of hiring and leading a world class team of product managers who execute on this strategy by adding the right new features to the Auth0 platform.
  • Success for the product team means shipping relevant products that drive short-term adoption and revenue, as well as new products that will extend beyond short-term revenue goals.
  • I'm a key member of the senior leadership team (SLT) and play a significant role in achieving the company’s most important goals and top priorities, all while exhibiting its core values.

VP, Marketing and Growth

Sep 2016May 2020 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • I am the leader of the Marketing team at Auth0 (80+ employees). I'm responsible for helping create the marketing strategy that allows Auth0 to double its annual recurring revenue (ARR) every year. I'm responsible for building a team of marketers and designers who define Auth0’s go to market strategy and create the messaging framework that will be used to communicate Auth0’s brand and value proposition to the marketplace.
  • The marketing team was responsible for 82% of the revenue that Auth0 generated in 2018 and 2019.
  • I'm a key member of the senior leadership team (SLT) and play a significant role in achieving the company’s most important goals and top priorities, all while exhibiting its core values.
  • I'm part of core early team that drove launch and explosive growth to unicorn status.

Director, Marketing & Growth

Promoted

Jun 2015Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • I'm in charge of all Marketing at Auth0.
  • The Marketing team is responsible for all data-driven marketing (including SEO and SEM), setting the content strategy, A/B experiments (including pricing and packaging), developer evangelism, product marketing, PR and lifecycle marketing.

Developer Advocate | Developer Evangelist

May 2014Jun 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • I was the 6th company hire.
  • My main duties were:
  • Deliver compelling technical briefings for strategic customers, press, and analysts.
  • Write influential technical white papers and articles.
  • Build inspiring proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and sample applications.
  • Work closely with product management and engineering to define product directions.
  • Be an influential voice representing the product in community forums and blogs.
  • Deliver technical workshops for key customers.
  • Present at industry conferences.
  • Lead field readiness activities.
  • Facilitate knowledge sharing and transfer within the company.

Nxtp labs

Mentor

Jun 2017Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • I mentor the new startups incubated by NXTP Labs on marketing, growth, data, analytics and working with the sales team.

Socialmetrix

AngularJS Training

Jan 2014Jan 2014 · 0 mo · Argentina

  • I gave an AngularJS Training on Socialmetrix. The training started with basic AngularJS including the philosophy, controllers, scope, views and ended up with tips on building enterprise level AngularJS applications with very small controllers using the DRY principle, complex directives using ngModel, FormController and $compile, $apply and $digest explanation and much more.

Conferences

Speaker

Jul 2013Jul 2016 · 3 yrs

  • I've been speaking at several conferences and creating video courses and tutorials for users.
  • I've spoken or will soon be speaking at:
  • DevoxxFR
  • ngEurope
  • AngularMTV
  • DevoxxBE
  • ConFoo
  • dotJS
  • ngConf
  • PHPConfAr
  • JSConfAr

Coachaxis

AngularJS Consultant

Jun 2013Oct 2013 · 4 mos

  • I've been working as an AngularJS Consultant for CoachAxis.
  • I'm helping the company learn AngularJS, learn the best way to organize and architect an app, how to test and helping with general problems.

Packt publishing

Author of Play! Framework for Web Application Development

Jan 2013Jun 2013 · 5 mos

  • I've authored and published with Packt the Play Framework 2 Video course.
  • This video course is for Java programmers who want to develop applications in a simple and straightforward manner. All you need to start this course is basic Java knowledge and the desire to create powerful web applications using the Play! Framework.

Aquicore

Lead Developer & Product Architect

Nov 2012May 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote from Argentina

  • I’m in charge of the architecture design and development of core functionalities for the Aquicore StartUp. I work with Play! Framework with Scala and Java in the BackEnd and with AngularJS and Underscore in the FrontEnd.

Freelance

Freelance Software Architect

Sep 2012Jul 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Argentina

  • I've been working as a Freelance developer for several US startups and companies. I've worked defining architectures for both WebApps and APIs for mobile apps, leading teams and developing both BackEnd and FrontEnd.
  • I've worked in Traditional form-based web apps, scraper bots, analytics applications, distributed processing, API integrations (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn among others, custom API design, development environment setups and more.

Zauber

2 roles

Technical Project Lead

Aug 2011Nov 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • I have been working in different Web, Web Mobile and Android projects as Project leader, including Tagg (Pet tracker) for Qualcomm and MercadoPin.
  • I've participated in Startup's incubation, helping with the Software Architecture, Product Management, Managing People and Programming. We've been using Lean Startup and Ruby On Rails for those startups.

Senior Software Developer

Apr 2010Jul 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Working with both Web Applications and Back End applications in Java. Using Hibernate, Spring, ActiveMQ, Maven.

Globant

Software Developer

Apr 2007Apr 2010 · 3 yrs · Argentina

  • Working with several technologies like:
  • Java, Hibernate, Sping, jBPM, JBoss, Axis, XStream, Spring MVC, log4j, JMS, JMX, Drools, C#, VB .Net, ASP .Net,

Education

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) — System Engineer

Jan 2007Jan 2011

ORT

IT Bachelor — IT Bachelor

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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