Summary
Stef Lewandowski is a fractional CTO, startup advisor and product-driven engineer with 15 years of experience turning early-stage ideas into production SaaS and AI products. He excels at rapid prototyping and taking concepts from "zero to one," having built and led teams across ventures in finance, education, sustainability, logistics and more. Notable outcomes include leading On Deck’s platform through hypergrowth, architecting Oak National Academy’s award-winning learning platform that served millions during COVID, and building Translucent’s data-warehouse-first CFO platform. Stef blends hands-on full‑stack craftsmanship (TypeScript, Next.js, React, serverless, Snowflake/Postgres) with venture-building instincts and practical data engineering. He mentors and advises AI startups and has shipped one of the UK’s early production generative-AI education services, while also serving on an industrial advisory board and exploring LLM experiments in his spare time.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science / Software Engineering, BSc Computer Science / Software Engineering at University of Birmingham
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Oaklands College
Fellow Cultural and Creative Leadership, Fellow Cultural and Creative Leadership at Clore Leadership Programme