Stephen Chisa
Steward at City Hall Archives
Burlington, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Chisa is a product leader and human-centered designer with 11 years of experience building customer-focused SaaS products and internal operations tools, now stewarding a civic infrastructure project in Burlington, VT. He blends entrepreneurship, user research, and technical fluency to ship features that drove significant growth—helping one product line deliver 50–80% of new revenue and contributing to a strategic merger. Known for instituting remote engineering practices and formalizing research-led roadmaps, he consistently improves team velocity and cross-functional collaboration. His background spans Microsoft to startups, where he prioritized accessibility, prototyped earlier in the development cycle, and scaled products through disciplined discovery. Comfortable navigating business viability, user desirability, and technical feasibility, he also brings a designer’s eye from studies at RISD and engineering perspective from Olin and UCSC extension work. Beyond metrics, he’s drawn to projects that strengthen local governance and civic trust, reflecting a rare blend of product rigor and community stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Institute for Graphic Design, Graphic Design, Summer Institute for Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of DesignBachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration and Management, General at Babson CollegeEngineering Certificate, Engineering Design, Engineering Certificate, Engineering Design at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringUniversity of California Santa CruzHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Cranbrook Kingswood
Github Skills (10)
startup5
react5
javascript5
css5
php4
saas4
twilio4
reimplementation2
python2
scraper1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
schisa/CarsAndCoffeeVT
May 2016 - Jul 2020
The Cars and Coffee VT website
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 4 years 3 months
reactcoffeecssjavascriptcars
schisa/portfolio
Aug 2015 - Mar 2025
Stephen's Portfolio
Contributions:14 PRs, 135 pushes, 7 branches in 9 years 8 months
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