Summary
Andreas Stefik is an independent consultant and university professor with 14+ years bridging software engineering, programming languages, and human factors research. He invented the evidence-driven Quorum programming language—built from randomized controlled trials—to improve accessibility and developer productivity, and his work has been adopted by groups including programmers with disabilities. Based in Las Vegas, he leads NSF-funded research, teaches compilers and software engineering, and occasionally consults for industry on accessibility and CS education. Honored as a 2016 White House Champion of Change, he combines practical tool-building (including custom language runtimes) with rigorous empirical study of the long-running “language wars.”
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Washington State University
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Central Washington University