Summary
Shay Stern is a pragmatic technology leader and Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of experience driving frontend, backend and mobile engineering across fast-moving startups and scale-ups. He has repeatedly moved from hands-on development to executive R&D and CTO roles—most recently at Crowded after leading engineering and product delivery at Homeppl—delivering scalable, high-quality web and mobile launches. Comfortable in multilingual stacks from embedded C/C++ and VxWorks to modern React, Node and Python backends, he blends deep technical fluency with product-focused leadership. Shay’s background includes building core apps from inception, designing REST APIs and cross-platform mobile clients, which gives him a rare end-to-end perspective on architecture and UX. Based in Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel, he is known for turning complex requirements into pragmatic, production-ready systems while keeping teams aligned and shipping fast.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew