Stefan Orr
Chief Technology Officer at SmartSpace.ai
Greater Tauranga Area New Zealand
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Top SchoolStefan Orr is a technology leader and entrepreneur with eight years of hands-on software and data science experience, currently serving as CTO at SmartSpace.ai and CreativeQ after founding and scaling Istos. He combines an academic foundation in Computer Science (BSc Hons, University of Otago) with practical product and research instincts honed through international projects and a US internship. Stefan’s background spans end-to-end delivery—from applied data science at Telogis to building commercial software and digital products—bridging research rigor with pragmatic engineering. He is comfortable shifting between strategy and implementation, leading teams to turn complex problems into deployable systems. Based in the Greater Tauranga Area, he brings cross-cultural communication experience and a founder’s bias for action to growing tech ventures. A continuous learner, he prioritizes applying scientific methods to real-world product challenges, often spotting opportunities where research-driven thinking yields business impact.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Hons) Computer Science at University of Otago
Stackoverflow
15reputation
2kreached
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4questions
Github Skills (15)
timesheet10
csharp10
database9
sql9
dotnet9
dotnet-core8
snowflake8
omnipay7
linux6
silverstripe6
adyen5
payment5
paypal5
payment-gateway5
php3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
stefanorr/snowflake-connector-net
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 9 days
dotnetconnectorsqlsnowflakecsharp
snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Snowflake Connector for .NET
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 10 days
dotnetconnectorsqlnet-frameworksnowflake
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