Daniel Terifaj / Growth & Partnership Manager

Partnerships are a maze.
I know the way through.

I build and look after our partnerships at Labyrinth Labs, with AWS front and center: the right conversations, the right people, and deals where both sides win.

The team I play for

Labyrinth Labs is a cloud native & DevOps company from Bratislava on a mission to make cloud journeys hassle free. AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, back-to-back AWS Consulting Partner of the Year for CEE (2024 & 2025), and the crew behind the AWS User Group Bratislava and #nobullshit.camp.

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The day job

What I actually do

The current chapter, and the two that led here.

This is what I used to do

Operations & growth support

The engine room years: supporting sales, marketing, finance and people teams, plus the processes and paperwork that quietly keep a services company running.

This is what I used to do

Finding the right people

Where it all started: sourcing and hiring engineers. Interviews, offers, onboarding. Still the best training for talking to anyone about anything.

One company, three chapters

The journey so far

Four and a half years at Labyrinth Labs. Apparently I found the center of this maze and decided to stay.

Feb 2025 – present

Growth & Partnership Manager

Shaping and strengthening our partnership ecosystem, especially the AWS relationship: aligning Labyrinth Labs with partner programs and initiatives, making sure our customers get the full benefit of it, and building internal AI tooling on the side.

Feb 2023 – May 2025

Business Operations Support

The engine room: supporting sales, marketing, finance and people teams, plus a good chunk of everything that quietly keeps a services company running.

Feb 2022 – Jan 2023

Junior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Started out hiring engineers. Turns out convincing people is a very transferable skill.

Paper trail

Badges of honor

Certifications and the education that came before them.

Certifications

Claude Code in Action
Anthropic · Jun 2026
Building with the Claude API
Anthropic · Jun 2026
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Anthropic · Jun 2026
Introduction to Agent Skills
Anthropic · Jun 2026
AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation
Amazon Web Services · Mar 2026
GitLab Solutions Architect Core
GitLab · Jul 2025
Professional Sales Accreditation for Partners
GitLab · Jul 2025
AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical)
Amazon Web Services · May 2022
AWS Partner: Accreditation (Business)
Amazon Web Services · May 2022

Education

Master's, Business Administration & Management (Strategic Management)
Comenius University Bratislava · 2023 – 2025 · Graduated with honours
Bachelor's, Business Administration, Economics & Management (HR Management)
Comenius University Bratislava · 2020 – 2023
Robotics Technology, first year
FEI STU Bratislava · 2019 – 2020 · Covid had other plans

Off the clock

Beyond the portals

What happens when the partner dashboards are closed.

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AI enthusiast

Claude-powered bots at work, AI experiments at home. This website had an AI co-author, and I regret nothing.

🖨️

3D printing

A Bambu Lab A1 mini, a folder of OpenSCAD files, and a growing collection of adapters nobody sells.

🛸

Drone flying

DJI Mini 3 Pro pilot. Certified, registered, fully legal. The paperwork habit follows me home.

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Aquarium keeping

A small underwater ecosystem that completely ignores all of my KPIs.

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DIY & tinkering

Electronics, small automations, repairs. If it has firmware, I will eventually mess with it.

The exit of the maze

Let's talk!

A partnership idea, a question about working with Labyrinth Labs, or just AWS ecosystem gossip. Both inboxes are open, or catch me at #nobullshit.camp in September.