Steph Ango is a CEO and founder with a decade of product and startup leadership, currently helming Obsidian—a writing app built around private, flexible note-taking—and co-leading Slash Packaging to advance sustainability in packaging. She co-founded Lumi and Inkodye, bringing deep expertise in product design, hardware-adjacent innovation, and building platforms that connect supply chains and makers. Trained in ecology and industrial design, Steph blends systems thinking with hands-on design instincts, a combination that shows in her early solar-powered fabric-printing success and later packaging platforms. She also codes and contributes to open-source UI work, including front-end theme development for Obsidian, evidencing a comfort that spans strategy, product, and interface-level execution.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Bachelor's degree, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Colorado College
Industrial and Product Design, Industrial and Product Design at Art Center College of Design
A distraction-free and highly customizable theme for Obsidian.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:210 releases, 4 reviews, 301 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Steph's commits reveal a focus on modifying CSS files, specifically the `obsidian.css` file, indicating a role in theme customization and possibly front-end development. The commits involve adding settings and fixing issues related to the theme's appearance, suggesting a direct role in implementing and maintaining the user interface of the Obsidian application theme. The changes range from basic theming adjustments to more complex fixes.
Contributions:16 releases, 23 PRs, 142 pushes in 1 month
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