Summary
Jess Stopa is a Technical Lead with 11 years of professional experience and a long history as a freelancer, specializing in Laravel and modern JavaScript (primarily Vue) to deliver full-stack web, mobile and hybrid apps. Comfortable leading small teams and acting as Scrum Master, Jess combines hands-on development with product roadmap planning and process improvements across startups and scale-ups. Past roles include CTO and multiple lead positions where they rebuilt legacy platforms, migrated systems to APIs and SPAs, and shipped SaaS products and in-house admin tools. Known for pragmatic, detail-oriented engineering and a taste for informal, collaborative teams, Jess is equally at home coding features as mentoring developers. An entrepreneurial builder, they co-founded Maplify to explore location-driven features and have repeatedly balanced full-time roles with long-running freelance work.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Information Technology, Diploma, Information Technology at EUC Ringsted
HG2, HG2 at Roskilde Handelsskole
Danish, English