Stefan is a seasoned Full-Stack Web Developer; with 13+ years of expertise as a Rails veteran, and 4 startups under his belt. He has CTO experience; consulting on technology strategy to bring different client products into reality, especially for startups. He uses a hands-on approach to development; building excellent platforms from the ground up before transitioning to a managerial role on most projects.
Regularly oversee TOTEM's company strategy and planning processes.
Supervise and provide leadership for the iteration of the critical product features and infrastructure of the company, to shape the culture and direction of the TOTEM team.
Efficiently manage and mitigate internal operational issues with precision and accuracy.
Established the pillars for the company's technical vision and led all technological development tasks on the platform within the company.
Built a highly-scalable platform to power e-commerce on digital products for technology publishers.
Supervised the release of the platform across 12 hosted stores, with $500k+ in monthly revenue, 150k+ active users, and 30M+ monthly impressions in less than a year.
Led and guided a high-performing team of several contract developers in curating the right software solutions that aligns with Smartvark's business objectives.
Provided visionary executive leadership for the overall operations of the company.
Worked on the early implementation/rollout of a smartphone-optimized website for the company.
This is a personal passion project which combines different surf forecasting sites into one single forecast for each surf spot (sort of like a MetaCritic for surfing). Built and maintained the software application as an open-source project.
TOTEM provides for-impact organizations with a modern, secure and powerful membership management system that makes it easy to acquire and retain members for the association. The system is designed to provide a superior experience on mobile and desktop for associations. Architected and wrote more than 50% of the code for the application, with the help of a junior developer. The app was developed as a Rails API with a React frontend.
Privva is an award-winning, cloud-based vendor risk assessment platform delivering value for a diverse customer base across industries including legal, financial services, technology, healthcare, education, and media.
Led a team of 3 developers to build the first of 2 versions of the product for this SaaS startup that later went on to raise funding and hire their own team. Scaled them through their first dozen clients and iterated quickly on client feedback.
