EMILI KOSIK
Founder — Product, Go-to-Market & Operations
Founder — My High School Timeline

Emili Kosik

I founded My High School Timeline, a free planning platform that gives students a personalized roadmap through high school. I run the whole thing — product, positioning, launch content, and the first pilot cohort — alongside internship work in startup PR and customer operations.

Founder & product owner Go-to-market & PR Pre-order & customer ops AI-assisted building 5 languages
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4.0+
GPA held since freshman year
1
Venture founded and shipped
2 yrs
Formal product design training
5
Languages spoken

Venture

My High School Timeline
Founder — product, go-to-market and operations
2025 – Present

A free planning platform built on a concrete market gap: the average student-to-counselor ratio in Texas is 457:1, so most students make the decisions that shape their college applications without any individual guidance. My High School Timeline turns that guidance into a product — a personalized timeline of the deadlines and decisions that matter, year by year.

Product
  • Defined the positioning, feature set and pricing model — free, no ads, no upsells, no sensitive data collected
  • Segmented the audience (incoming freshmen, transfers, international students) and built a different timeline for each
  • Designed and shipped the landing site and web app hands-on, with no engineering budget
Go-to-market
  • Run a YouTube channel as the main acquisition channel, producing short-form student advice
  • Recruited the first pilot cohort — Round Rock HS, Spring 2026 — to validate with real users before scaling
  • Wrote the messaging for both audiences: students, and parents new to the US school system
myhstimeline.com YouTube channel

Work & Volunteer Experience

Tip Assistive Technology LLC
Intern/Assistant — Austin, TX
2025 – Present

Supported a hardware startup on the commercial side: press outreach, the pre-order pipeline, and the Early Bird program that put the first devices in customers' hands.

  • Drafted press releases and coordinated media outreach, keeping messaging consistent across channels
  • Processed incoming pre-orders — verified customer details, tracked order status, and kept the pipeline clean for fulfillment
  • Ran participant administration for the Early Bird program, under which devices were shipped free to first adopters, and handled communication with the list
  • Translated and adapted promotional copy for target audiences
  • Edited advertising video drafts for clarity, flow, and brand consistency
  • Initiated contact with potential collaborators and scheduled meetings between management and partners
Piter Shawarma
Intern — Belgrade, Serbia
2023 – 2024

Joined a newly opened restaurant that was struggling to attract customers and took on its marketing output — contributing ideas that helped lift customer flow by around 25%.

  • Designed promotional graphics and materials, improving local brand reach and engagement
  • Maintained a consistent posting schedule and drove announcement campaigns
  • Translated content into 2–3 main languages to reach a mixed local market
Chartwell International Lower Secondary School
Peer Tutor & Classroom Volunteer
2023 – 2024
  • Tutored classmates in core subjects and helped students who were still learning English follow the material
  • Kept a shared notebook of the questions that came up most often, so answers were easy to reuse
  • Helped the teacher organize materials, assignments, and lesson prep

Leadership & Organizations

Vice-President, Humanitarian Club
Current
Round Rock High School
Director, Co-op
Current
Round Rock High School
Vice-President, Film Club
2023 – 2024
Chartwell International, Serbia
  • Sourced the equipment needed to restart a stalled production, then coordinated schedules and delegated roles
  • Recruited new volunteers to grow the team
DECA & Regular Volunteering
Current
Round Rock High School
  • DECA member — business, marketing and entrepreneurship competitions
  • Volunteer regularly in the school and local community

Education

Round Rock High School
Expected Graduation: May 26, 2027
Round Rock, TX
  • Maintained 4.0+ GPA since starting high school
  • Honors: National English Honor Society
  • Relevant coursework: Business Management, AP Pre-calculus, AP Physics
  • Clubs: DECA, Humanitarian Club, Co-op, comic club, non-competitive swimming
British Higher School of Art and Design
Product Design — two-year program (equivalent), completed
2020 – 2022

Completed a two-year pre-university program in Product Design: user research, concept development, prototyping, and presenting finished work to a panel — the foundation behind how I now scope and ship my own product.

Certifications & Skills

Certifications
  • Microsoft Office Specialist — Word
  • Microsoft Office Specialist — Excel
  • Microsoft Office Specialist — PowerPoint
  • Multiple certificates from a Game Design Course (2023)
Languages
  • Fluent: English, Russian
  • Proficient understanding: French, Spanish, Serbian
Business & Operations
Product positioning Go-to-market PR & press releases Pre-order & order operations Partnership outreach Customer service
AI & Technical
Claude Code Building custom MCP servers Product & web design Video editing

Interests

Traditional and digital art Symbolism in film and music History and personal ancestry Psychology Cycling in parks