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Amaro Than Thinks Different.

From security breakthroughs to small product details that change everything — this is where we share how Amaro Than is built differently.

Designed with care. Written with honesty.
Security, product, and people — all in one place.
Security
Live safeguards
Safer by design.
We don’t bolt on safety. We architect it — from encrypted media to abuse-resistant infrastructure.
Product
Built for real life
Small details. Big feeling.
Every animation, every layout, tuned for clarity — so the story you share is always the hero.
Community
Made with you
Stories that belong.
Behind every update, there are people. Roma youth, creators, families — shaping what Amaro Than becomes.
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Elvis Avdiu as COO

Elvis Avdiu as COO

Amaro Than Team · Nov 24, 2025
Elvis Avdiu leads marketing at Amaro Than with more than a decade of experience turning quiet communities into active, confident movements. Before Amaro Than, he spent years working on campaigns for youth groups, local organisations, and grassroots projects, learning how to reach people who are often ignored by mainstream media and brands.

At Amaro Than, Elvis doesn’t think in terms of “users” and “audiences” but in terms of people and stories. He designs bold campaigns, narratives, and video moments that make individuals feel recognised, not targeted—especially young Roma who rarely see themselves represented with pride. Whether it’s a short clip, a long-form story, or a simple social post, his goal is always the same: clear emotion, honest message, no empty promises.

Elvis also builds bridges inside the organisation. He works closely with product, design, and community teams to keep the message simple, human, and consistent across every touchpoint. When a new feature launches, he thinks not just about how it works, but what it feels like, how it’s announced, and how it fits into the bigger story of Roma connection and dignity.

From launch strategies and onboarding flows to long-term community growth, Elvis plans campaigns that combine data, creativity, and instinct. He studies how people interact with Amaro Than, listens to feedback, and turns those insights into better communication and stronger engagement.

For Elvis, marketing at Amaro Than is not about noise or hype. It’s about building a voice that people trust—one that says: you belong here, your story matters, and this platform was made with you in mind.
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Amaro Than’s Adaptive Bar Redefining In-App Interaction

It starts with a thumb. In every app, your thumb stretches, swipes, and taps—yet menus and pop-ups always pull you away. At Amaro Than, we asked: why should interaction feel heavy? So we created the Adaptive Bar. A single, living interface at the bottom of the screen. At rest, it’s a sleek, unobtrusive pill. Tap it, and it morphs fluidly into a dashboard, guiding you through messages, voice recordings, reactions, or settings—all inside the same space. No pop-ups. No interruptions. Every motion is Hyper-Fluid, every animation Luxury-Fluid, designed to feel effortless under your thumb. The bar stretches, flows, and adapts—anticipating intent, keeping you in rhythm. It’s more than UI. It’s interaction reimagined. And it lives where you do—at the bottom of your screen, right under your thumb. This is the Adaptive Bar. Only from Amaro Than.

Amaro Cloud

Amaro Cloud

Today we introduced Amaro Cloud inside Netvorko. It’s our own storage layer—built for speed, security and full privacy. Every photo, video and file now travels through our encrypted Amaro Than cloud, making sharing faster, smoother and more reliable. This is a big step toward a unified ecosystem where everything simply works.

Rand Engel as Senior Advisor

Rand Engel as Senior Advisor

Rand brings decades of international experience in leadership, humanitarian work, and cross-cultural engagement. He first came to Kosovo in 1999, where he founded Balkan Sunflowers Kosova, an NGO supporting Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities in education, inclusion, and community development. As an advisor to Amaro Than, Rand provides strategic guidance rooted in sustainability, transparency, and global best practices, while helping the project stay true to its Roma-led vision and values.

Faton Mustafa as Content Production Manager to Amaro Than

Faton Mustafa as Content Production Manager to Amaro Than

Faton Mustafa is a Kosovo Roma filmmaker, journalist, and activist dedicated to empowering Roma youth. Through documentaries and community initiatives across Kosovo, Serbia, Croatia, and Montenegro, he highlights Roma challenges, advocates for their rights, and creates platforms for young people to share their stories. His commitment drives meaningful social change. At Amaro Than, he brings 20 years of experience in media, visual storytelling, and digital communication. As Content Production Manager, he will apply a sharp creative eye and a storyteller’s instinct to shape content that captures real voices and real emotion. He will help build our platform’s identity—authentic, bold, and community-driven—while ensuring every story we share reflects dignity, pride, and truth. His extensive experience across media landscapes will strengthen our message, grow our visibility, and amplify the Roma narrative on a global digital stage.

Almedina Skenderi as Communications & Engagement Lead at Amaro Than

Almedina Skenderi as Communications & Engagement Lead at Amaro Than

Almedina focuses on connecting stories that inspire change and strengthen community. A student at RIT Kosovo and alumna of the YES Program, she has raised awareness about Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities through storytelling, advocacy, and youth leadership. As Communications & Engagement Lead at Amaro Than, she crafts strategy, leads campaigns, and builds bridges so every voice feels seen, heard, and valued.

Ardit Berisha as CTO

Ardit Berisha as CTO

Ardit Berisha is the CTO of Amaro Than and the architect behind its entire stack. A full-stack engineer, cybersecurity specialist, network engineer, and cloud architect, he designs distributed systems that scale from the first thousand to millions of users. With auto-scaling, CDNs, tuned databases, and deep monitoring, he builds infrastructure that stays fast, resilient, and secure—even under real-world attacks.

Elvis Avdiu as COO

Elvis Avdiu as COO

Elvis Avdiu leads marketing at Amaro Than with more than a decade of experience in community growth and engagement. He designs bold campaigns, stories, and video moments that make people feel seen, not targeted. From outreach strategy to daily communication, he keeps our message simple, human, and consistent, perfectly syncing content, product, and community so every touchpoint feels like one clear voice.

Engineered to Scale for Millions

Engineered to Scale for Millions

The system designed by our CTO is built to scale from day one. Our architecture is cloud-ready, horizontally scalable, and optimized for high concurrency, so it can handle millions of users under good infrastructure conditions. With smart caching, tuned databases, and efficient APIs, Amaro Than stays fast, stable, and responsive even as the community grows.

Driton Berisha as CEO

Driton Berisha as CEO

Driton Berisha, CEO of Amaro Than, brings over 20 years of work with Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in education, youth organising and culture. He led national efforts to defend Roma rights in the census, expanded access to preschool, and used music to share pride and hope. At Amaro Than, he builds a warm, open space where mixed youth groups create, learn and lead together, partnering with schools and institutions to break stereotypes and connect communities.

Ardit Berisha: Building Amaro Than Like a Fortress, One Line of Code at a Time

Ardit Berisha: Building Amaro Than Like a Fortress, One Line of Code at a Time

Ardit Berisha designed Amaro Than like a fortress first, platform second. As a cyber securist with a hacker’s mindset, he begins every diagram by asking: “where would I attack this?”. From backbone to APIs, traffic flows through layered firewalls, live alerts and learning algorithms watching network behaviour, honeypots, Nginx, Apache and sharded DBs, all wrapped in AES-256-CBC with weekly key rotation to resist DDoS, CSRF and SQLi.

The First Beta That Broke Us (So We Could Scale)

The First Beta That Broke Us (So We Could Scale)

The first beta felt like launch day. Ardit, Elvis, and Driton put Amaro Than on a simple XAMPP box, 20 people, 20 Mbps upload, closed circle. With just five users online the server choked—timelines froze, uploads died. Metrics pointed at one villain: raw videos. That night Ardit designed the optimizing algorithm and NARA-1r. Compressed streaming, smarter caching, WebSockets, and suddenly the same idea could breathe at scale instead of crashing the room.

Amaro Than on 18th November

Amaro Than on 18th November

The Night When Cloudflare Went Quiet” is about the evening a Cloudflare outage froze Amaro Than uploads stalled, feeds stopped, everything felt fragile. Instead of blaming the provider, you redesigned the stack: extra DNS, backup routes, smarter fallbacks, better health checks. That night turned into a promise: even when the internet breaks, Amaro Than fights to stay online for its people.

From Vision to Reality: The Story of Amaro Than

From Vision to Reality: The Story of Amaro Than

Amaro Than began as a conversation between three people: Driton, Elvis, and Ardit. No stage lights. No keynote. Just a simple idea that refused to go away. Driton was the first to say it out loud: “Why don’t we build a place that actually feels like us?” Not a generic social app. Not another platform where Roma people are a statistic, a “target audience,” or a checkbox in a report. A place where they were the center, not the footnote. That was the seed.