John Tambunting

New York, NY-based John Tambunting is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Pangea.app, a freelance talent marketplace connecting startups with college-based freelance professionals. He earned a degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 2017, supplementing his education at Columbia University before accumulating six years of full-stack software development experience. Alongside co-founder Adam Alpert, Tambunting scaled Pangea.app to an organization of 11 to 50 employees, securing a seed stage funding round in 2021 after participating in the Y Combinator and MassChallenge startup accelerators. In his executive role, he leads technical recruiting efforts and manages the platform's engineering infrastructure to facilitate fractional hiring in marketing, design, and software engineering. Tambunting's current professional focus centers on expanding marketplace capabilities for early-stage startups while actively exploring emerging technological applications within the web3 and non-fungible token sectors.