Summary
Mike Stelten is a software engineer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building consumer and enterprise web and mobile products from Seattle. As Co-Founder of Crimpd, he helped create the highest-rated climbing app on iOS and Android, blending product intuition with hands-on engineering. His background spans front-end leadership and full-stack development at companies including Microsoft (Azure Identity Developer Portal), Toybox Labs, and consumer-facing roles at Orbitz and Crate & Barrel. He specializes in modern JavaScript-driven UIs, developer workflows, and scalable web APIs, with a track record of shipping polished user experiences. Comfortable moving between startup scrappiness and larger corporate engineering practices, he pairs business-minded problem solving from a BS in Business Administration with deep implementation experience. Outside work he brings a climber’s mindset to product development—iterative, focused, and obsessed with small gains that compound over time.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration Management and Operations, Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration Management and Operations at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill