Mark Skrypka — Founding Engineer & Builder

Founding engineer. Builder. Zero to real users.

I build AI that companies run in production: voice agents, retrieval systems, realtime pipelines. Founder of Recal, where 1,200+ users turn meetings and Slack threads into recaps and decisions. Co-founder and CTO at Tree Labs, shipping agents for Jack, Cactus, and MascotBot. Now building Ray, an AI teammate for teams that live in chat.

01PRODUCTS

Built, shipped, and operated — real users and production AI, not portfolio demos.

Recal product screenshot

// founder

Recal

AI meeting notes & Slack recaps

Recal turns meetings and Slack threads into structured recaps, decisions, and tasks — so teams stop taking notes and never lose context. Automatic transcription, true video understanding, and chat with everything that's been said.

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Users

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Tasks extracted

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Conversations captured

Next.jsLiveKitPayloadProduction AI
tryrecal.com
Tree Labs product screenshot

// co-founder & cto

Tree Labs

AI agents that handle the work your team can't keep up with

A studio that designs, builds, and operates production AI agents — voice, workflow, and knowledge/RAG — for ops, CX, and product teams. Custom builds, no SaaS lock-in. I own engineering direction, architecture, and technical hiring across client work.

2022

Building since

Case studies

Service lines

Trusted by

  • Jack
  • Cactus
  • MascotBot
  • Shopfront
  • Guesto
AI AgentsVoiceRAGNext.js
treelabs.co

// in development // founder

In early development

An AI teammate for small teams that live in chat. Give it task and status ops in plain language across Slack, Discord, and Telegram — it acts autonomously across your tools, asks approval before anything sensitive, and remembers how your team works. No dashboard.

AI SDKTrigger.devPostgres + pgvectorComposio

Pre-launch — building in the open soon.

02CAREER

Started in mobile consulting, grew into founding-engineer roles, then into products of my own — 2019 to now.

// currently

Mark Skrypka

Founder · Ray

Jul 2026 — Present · Remote

All-in on Ray — an AI teammate for teams that live in chat. Recal stays in production; Tree Labs keeps shipping client agents.

Also: founder of Recal · co-founder & CTO at Tree Labs

// base Benidorm, Spain · working remotely

Jul 2026 — Present

Founder Ray

Remote

Building Ray full-time — an AI teammate for small teams that live in chat. Task and status ops in plain language across Slack, Discord, and Telegram; acts autonomously across your tools and asks approval before anything sensitive.

AI SDKTrigger.devPostgres + pgvectorComposio

May 2025 — Jul 2026

Founding Engineer Jack

Remote · US

Built the product and AI-operations stack for a home-services marketplace: SMS and voice agents, estimate generation, scheduling, payments, and the workflows pros and ops run on every day.

AI Voice AgentsNext.jsReactNode.jsStripe

2022 — Present

Co-founder & CTO Tree Labs

Remote

Co-founded an AI agent development studio (formerly Tree Solutions). Engineering direction, architecture, and technical hiring across client builds — voice, workflow, and knowledge agents running in production.

AI AgentsNext.jsNode.jsPrismaPostgreSQL

Sep 2024 — Jun 2025

Product Engineer Primitive

Remote

Construction and e-commerce tooling for a US construction-tech company — a commercial roof builder, sample-ordering flows, PDF generation, and backup/recovery systems.

Next.jsReactNode.jsPayloadPostgreSQL

May 2023 — Aug 2024

Founding Engineer Cactus AI

Remote · US

Helped build an AI-enabled commercial real estate platform for underwriting and investment workflows — product UI, data-heavy screens, document flows, and the engineering foundations.

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptStrapiAWS

Jun 2019 — Mar 2023

Software Developer DataArt

Remote · Poland

Built cross-platform mobile applications with React Native, focused on iOS delivery, API integrations, performance work, and close collaboration with product, design, and backend teams.

React NativeiOSReactTypeScriptPostgreSQL

03STACK

Production-proven across the stack — from React Native apps to realtime AI systems, at startups where shipping was the job.

Product engineering

  • React & Next.js
  • Node.js & APIs
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL / Prisma

AI systems

  • AI agents (voice, workflow, RAG)
  • LLMs in production
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • Realtime & voice

Mobile

  • React Native
  • iOS delivery

How I work

  • 0 → 1 product
  • Founding-engineer ownership
  • Payments & marketplaces
  • Internal ops tooling

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Years shipping products

Founding / senior roles

Products of my own, live

// flexibility

Stacks are a moving target — every product deserves its own right answer. What compounds is knowing the trade-offs and shipping with whatever fits.

04CONSULTING

I work with founders and teams that need senior AI engineering — a session this week when you need answers, ongoing counsel, or joining early and owning the build.

// 01

Consultation

One-off sessions when you need answers this week: build vs buy, agent architecture, cost and latency. Prepaid and recorded — you leave with a written action plan.

Per session

// 02

Advisory

Ongoing technical counsel for founders making their first big engineering bets — architecture, AI product direction, and the hiring bar.

Retainer

// 03

Founding / Lead Engineer

Join as an early, first, or lead engineer. I take products from zero to real users and own the messy middle: product, infrastructure, and the operational glue between them.

Full-time / Part-time

~/engage

$ mark engage --mode=session > book 60 or 90 minutes, prepaid > prep I read your docs before the call > answer build vs buy, architecture, cost > deliver written action plan within 48h status: sessions — booking open

Get in touch

Let's ship.

Hard problems, small teams, real users.

Built with & for

  • DataArt
  • Cactus AI
  • Tree Labs
  • Jack