Steffen Baumgarten
Co-Founder & CPO at Lakehaus
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSteffen Baumgarten is a Berlin-based Co-Founder and CPO with 11 years of hands-on experience building consumer-facing social products and leading full-stack engineering teams. He co-founded and bootstrapped Lakehaus, where he drives product, backend and mobile development, UX, QA and scalability for a chat community platform connecting influencers and communities. His background spans fintech and commerce—having built bank-backed, API-driven financing solutions at Network4Finance—and creative product work from earlier ventures in event management and digital production. Steffen combines technical leadership with business-facing skills in strategy, fundraising support, marketing and operations, enabling rapid product iteration and go-to-market execution. He holds advanced CS training (Cornell, Hack Reactor) layered on a cross-disciplinary BSc in Business and IT from TU Berlin, a profile that helps him translate complex technical constraints into customer-ready features. Outside the product role he’s known for turning side projects into polished demos, reflecting a maker’s mindset and a bias toward shipping.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
San Francisco, San Francisco at Hack ReactorMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration & Information Technology Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration & Information Technology Engineering at Technische Universität BerlinBachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration at University of Valencia
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
ios8
react8
android8
react-native8
cross-platform7
mobile6
mobile-development2
app-framework2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SteffenBerlin/rubiginouschanticleer
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 11 branches in 11 days
SteffenBerlin/jamboree
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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