Stefan W.

Stefan W.

Senior Software Engineer

United States of America
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About Me

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.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Full Stack Developer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

TOTEM Group Inc
TOTEM Group Inc
CTO
2017 - Present (7 years)
Los Angeles, United States
  • 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.

RallyBound
RallyBound
Interim CTO
2016 - 2016
California, United States
  • Implemented development processes in a rapidly growing engineering team for RallyBound.

  • Led daily standups with the product/engineering team and supervised the planning of regular sprint meetings.

  • Utilized new approaches for QA in the release process and hired a full time product lead on the project for the company.

CurbStand
CurbStand
Interim CTO/Advisor
2016 - 2016
California, United States
  • Built a 5-person dev team in less than 2 weeks to replace an agency and get app rewrite back on schedule

  • Led the complete re-architecting of CurbStand's platform.

  • Brought on and managed new UX and QA resources, recruited a full-time CTO and a Product Lead for the company.

Startup Consulting
Startup Consulting
Founder
2014 - Present (10 years)
Los Angeles, United States
  • Provide technical consultancy on strategy for different clients including PeerStreet, RallyBound, CodeWars, and CurbStand.

  • Offer expertise for the development and implementation of technical strategies for startup clients.

  • Effectively lead and supervise tasks for new product development and offer guidance for numerous web development projects.

Cult Cosmetics
Cult Cosmetics
Co-Founder/CTO
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
California, United States
  • Offered guidance and technical leadership for the development of the cultcosmetic.com site.

  • Oversaw and managed the digital operations of the company in a rapidly changing tech environment.

  • Efficiently guided strategies for the management of IT systems, infrastructure and 3rd party support/integrations for the web application.

StackCommerce (StackSocial)
StackCommerce (StackSocial)
Co-Founder/CTO
2012 - 2012
California, United States
  • 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.

Smartvark
Smartvark
Founder/CEO
2010 - 2012 (2 years)
Los Angeles, United States
  • 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.

Dorchester Capital Advisors
Dorchester Capital Advisors
Technology Manager
2007 - 2010 (3 years)
Los Angeles, United States
  • Developed a 3-year technology plan to modernize the company's internal processes and improved the process of investor reporting.

  • Architected custom reporting interface to replace manually generated Excel files and free up analyst time for more productive work.

  • Efficiently managed the IT infrastructure team made up of a full-time developer and numerous contract developers.

LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO
LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO
Senior Business Systems Analyst
2006 - 2007 (1 year)
United States
  • Streamlined business processes to enable the CDO Group to increase its assets/staff ratio.

  • Successfully led a team of software developers through the completion and maintenance of enterprise software projects.

  • Regularly identified issues in processes, requirements, procedures, and recommended improvements and tool sets for resolution and enhancements.

Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO)
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO)
Programmer Analyst
2004 - 2005 (1 year)
United States
  • Managed a SQL Server 2000 database containing 50+ asset classes and over $7Bn in total assets.

  • Designed and created analytical tools and a company intranet portal.

  • Supervised two employees on the team; a data analyst and a data entry intern.

Portfolio

Creator/Sole Developer - Meta Surf Forecast
Creator/Sole Developer - Meta Surf Forecast

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.

Creator/Lead Developer - TOTEM
Creator/Lead Developer - TOTEM

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.

Lead Developer - Privva
Lead Developer - Privva

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.

Education

MBA, Entrepreneurship
MBA, Entrepreneurship
UCLA, Anderson School of Management
2006 - 2009 (3 years)
BSc. Computer Science
BSc. Computer Science
UC Irvine
2000 - 2004 (4 years)