Summary
J Staffer is a seasoned CTO and hands-on engineer with over 15 years building secure, scalable media and consumer apps from the ground up. He’s led architecture and engineering teams for startups and studios, with technology that has managed archival workflows for 700+ films including 35+ Academy Award-winning projects. A practical product-minded developer, he’s the first engineering hire on Forbes 400–backed ventures and the founder of Unify, an Apple-featured iOS app that auto-creates perfect group photos using on-device computer vision. Equally comfortable in C++ audio processing, AR/iOS tooling, and cloud-secure media platforms, he blends low-level engineering with UX and product strategy. Based in California, he pairs executive leadership with daily coding and a habit of shipping polished side projects that solve personal problems — and he’ll happily take a coffee for any useful open-source pull request.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer