Fred Stevens-smith
Co-founder & CEO at Rainforest QA
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFred Stevens-smith is a founder and CEO with 12 years of experience building product-led engineering teams and customer-focused QA tooling from San Francisco. As co-founder and CEO of Rainforest QA since 2011 he blends product, design, and technical leadership to ship reliable testing solutions for fast-moving startups. His background as a CTO and creative lead at small agencies and digital ventures gives him a rare mix of aesthetic sensibility and hands-on engineering discipline. A Warwick-educated entrepreneur who attended Y Combinator, Fred is comfortable bridging strategic fundraising and day-to-day product decisions, often stepping into design and code to unblock teams. Notably, he built his career by iterating across roles—from graphic design and digital direction to managing freelance tech projects—bringing pragmatic creativity to scalable software problems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorOakham SchoolBSc Economics Politics and International Studies, BSc Economics Politics and International Studies at University of Warwick
English, French, German
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Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fredsterss/Simple-Blog-Boilerplate
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:25 commits in 4 days
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