Summary
Claire Stafford is a seasoned CTO with over three decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering secure Unix/Linux and Windows software for enterprise and government customers. She founded and leads S4Software, where she architected identity management, security, and system administration tools deployed across more than 20 countries and used to manage networks of thousands of systems and users. Claire combines low-level operating system and interpreter development with practical productization, quality control and customer-facing support, routinely translating complex security requirements into reliable commercial solutions. She also runs web and e-business operations at eJungle, overseeing ASP/.NET development, off-shore engineering teams and hosting environments. Known for blending technical depth (OS, security, scripting and databases) with strong project and corporate management, she quietly maintains a track record of long-lived, widely adopted tooling that survives platform shifts. Based in San Diego, her background in chemistry and biochemistry underscores a disciplined, analytical approach to engineering and operational problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
University of California San Diego
San Diego State University