The People Behind CarbonHQ
Software doesn't build itself. The better you understand who's building it, the more you'll trust what you're running your carbon projects on.
CarbonHQ is a small team. Most of us didn't come up through computer science. We came through kitchens, control rooms, consulting firms and bars. We switched careers, taught ourselves, gave things up to be here. We think that makes us more useful to you, not less.
The people developing carbon projects aren't waiting for perfect conditions either. They're building something hard, in difficult places, because the problem is real. We understand that. It's the same reason we're here.
Here's who you'll actually be working with.
Allen Fan, Co-Founder
Allen studied accounting and finance at the University of Waikato, not software. He went on to qualify as both a Chartered Accountant and a CFA, spent years in finance and strategy, and landed at C-Quest Capital, helping investors structure deals into carbon projects across the developing world. That's where the idea for CarbonHQ came from: watching project developers try to manage complex, high-stakes operations inside spreadsheets, PDFs and email threads.
He had an MBA offer from INSEAD waiting. He turned it down and co-founded CarbonHQ in September 2022 instead. He's been learning product management, fundraising and sales largely on the job ever since, and he'll be the first to say none of it came naturally. He recently moved his family from Sydney to Nairobi, Kenya. He sold everything and relocated to be closer to the customers and projects CarbonHQ is built to serve.
Eugene Datsky, Co-Founder
Eugene was enrolled in a business degree. He dropped out and taught himself to code instead.
His career since has moved through some serious rooms: Yandex in Moscow, where he built products with tens of millions of daily users; JetBrains in Saint Petersburg, where he built Ring UI (now with 3,500+ stars on GitHub) and co-built the first version of JetBrains Toolbox; Canva in Sydney; then HealthMatch, where he led engineering, before co-founding CarbonHQ with Allen in 2022.
He builds CarbonHQ the way he's built everything: nothing unnecessary, nothing that doesn't need to be there.
Harry Mann, Product Design
Harry has been a product designer for fourteen years. He spent nearly a decade at Deloitte Digital, eventually running their national UX practice and leading a 50-person team. He left consulting, co-founded a fintech startup called Chippit that went from idea to VC-backed in five months (named one of Australia's Top 50 most innovative startups by the Daily Telegraph), then went freelance, working with clients including Forbes Australia and the University of Sydney.
In 2023, while working on the CarbonHQ product, he enrolled in an MA in Biodesign at the University of the Arts London and graduated with a Distinction in 2025. Biodesign sits where design meets biology, and it changes how you think about the things you're building.
He is also, without much competition, the best-dressed person on the team.
Oliver Plummer, Software Engineer
Oliver's introduction to coding was a high school work experience placement, shadowing a web developer at a Sydney tech company for a few weeks. It was enough to set the direction.
He's entirely self-taught, with no degree and no bootcamp. For nearly four years he worked as a bartender at the Aurora Rooftop Hotel, quietly teaching himself to code on the side. He took on his first freelance software project in early 2022, while still behind the bar. By mid-2022 he had a full-time role at ReadyTech Justice, maintaining a legacy case management system for the justice sector. It's demanding, unglamorous work that teaches you to write code that holds up under pressure. Between that job and CarbonHQ, he was back behind a bar. That's where we found him.
Outside of work, Oliver builds houses with his bricks on the basketball court, can finish a beer in two seconds, and has recently become a cycling fanatic.
Victor Worobec, Software Engineer
Victor spent a decade working in hospitality, logistics and the trades in Sydney (line cook, warehouse worker, plumber), with a quiet interest in games programming he never quite acted on. In early 2023 he enrolled in a four-month full-time software engineering bootcamp at General Assembly. Four months later, he had a new career.
He spent a year building full-stack applications at a digital agency before joining CarbonHQ. His LinkedIn banner is <h1>. It's not a joke. It's just how he sees the world now.
Off the screen, Victor is the kind of person who knows everyone. If you need a contact, a favour, or a good deal, he'll have someone for it. It's a useful trait in a small team.
Ryuichi Nakamura, Software Engineer
For three years, Ryuichi ran the operations of a security control room in Sydney: supervising a team of nine, managing shift schedules, making sure nothing fell through the cracks overnight. While doing it, he started writing Google Apps Scripts to automate the team's admin workflows. It got him started.
He taught himself React and TypeScript in the margins of that job, built up a freelance client base, and transitioned into full-time engineering. He's been at CarbonHQ since October 2025.
Off the clock, Ryuichi raves and rides motorbikes. If you ever hear something thumping in the background on a call, that's him. He'll be in a tank top, coding to a set.
Andrey Govorukhin, Software Engineer
Andrey is the newest member of the team and, technically, its most formally educated. He holds a Bachelor of Advanced Computing in Computer Science and Computational Data Science from the University of Sydney, graduating in 2025. He could have taken that degree to any number of larger companies. He chose a small team working on a hard problem instead. We think that says something.
He is also the team's best Mario Kart player, a serious bowling threat, and by a significant margin the first to sunburn at any team offsite. We're working on it.
A team, not just a product
Most of us didn't take the conventional route into software. We dropped out, switched careers mid-stream, taught ourselves in the margins of other jobs. We chose carbon markets because the problem is real and the stakes are high. It wasn't the easy path.
That's something we share with the people we build for. Carbon project developers are out there doing hard work in hard places, often with limited resources and a lot on the line. We don't take that lightly. We show up the same way they do, with genuine care for the outcome.
When you work with CarbonHQ, you get the software. You also get us in your corner.