Stefan Wrobel
Senior Engineering Manager at Playlist
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolStefan Wrobel is a seasoned engineering leader and serial founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling product-led startups from MVP to profitable growth. He co-founded StackCommerce, scaling it to millions of impressions and predictable revenue before its acquisition, and has repeatedly operated as a hands-on CTO or interim technology leader to stabilize fast-growing teams. Stefan combines full-stack engineering chops (Rails/React) with strategic product and hiring processes, designing prioritization and delivery systems that reduce regressions and accelerate outcomes. He has a track record of shipping high-impact integrations and revenue-driving features—such as a Zocdoc integration at Brightside—and building greenfield apps within larger platform ecosystems. An MBA-trained entrepreneur who transitioned from hedge-fund technology into startups, Stefan balances technical depth with commercial instincts and a knack for rapid team formation. Off-hours he’s a restless traveler and outdoors enthusiast, bringing the same curiosity and energy to solving hard engineering and product challenges.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Entrepreneurship, MBA, Entrepreneurship at UCLA Anderson School of ManagementUniversity of California, Irvine
Stackoverflow
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routes
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (200)
glance10
testing10
double10
visual-studio10
api10
highcharts10
xlsx10
json10
serializer10
html-email10
selector10
package-manager10
css10
mozjpeg10
ruby10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
swrobel/twilight-terminal-theme
Jan 2013 - Oct 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 6 years 10 months
mac-osmactwilightos-xterminal
swrobel/homebrew-cask
Nov 2015 - Jul 2023
A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 8 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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