Summary
Stefania Olafsdottir is a mathematics-trained, product-focused founder with 13 years building data-driven products and teams, currently CEO and Co-Founder of Avo (YC W19), which helps product teams ship faster without sacrificing analytics quality. Her background moves from genetics research and bioinformatics into data science and revenue engineering, giving her a rare blend of statistical rigor and production systems experience. At QuizUp she led data science and revenue engineering efforts, instituting AB testing, event design, and ad-revenue pipelines that scaled decision-making. She excels at translating complex analytical problems into developer-friendly implementations and tracking plans that prevent analytics breakage. Known for hands-on leadership across product, fundraising, and operations, she also brings a philosopher’s curiosity—interested in understanding people as well as systems—and an appetite for unexpected adventures.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, First class grade, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, First class grade at University of Iceland
Computer Science, Computer Science at Reykjavik University
Social Sciences, First class grade, Social Sciences, First class grade at Menntaskólinn á Akureyri
Icelandic, English, Danish, Norwegian, French