Stefan Murakami
Lead Software Engineer at What's Popp'n
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Murakami is a Lead Software Engineer in Chicago with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack, high-availability web and mobile applications for insurance, finance, and banking. He combines React/React Native front ends with Node/Nest.js backends and has shipped production mobile builds to TestFlight and Google Play while establishing robust testing and component workflows. Stefan has a track record of improving operational efficiency—automating onboarding to cut implementation from weeks to hours and refactoring microservices to reduce downstream errors and speed rollout. Equally comfortable owning product features and backend APIs, he led teams to deliver reusable UI libraries, complex auth flows, and scalable loan application generators for thousands of users across dozens of institutions. A former industrial engineering student, he brings an analytical, process-minded approach to software design and a knack for turning regulatory and operational complexity into reliable, auditable systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Industrial Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago
Github Skills (4)
git9
github9
patch7
subversion5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Japapino/japapino.github.io
Aug 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 4 months
save-dat-money/fund-it
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:92 commits, 26 PRs, 68 pushes in 5 months
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