Stephen Corona is a seasoned startup CTO with 11 years of engineering leadership and a track record of building consumer-scale systems, most notably as CTO of Twitpic where he helped scale a photo-sharing app to 50 million users and billions of photos. He currently leads technology at Blockit after architect and platform roles at BigCommerce and Life360, bringing deep experience in APIs, platform engineering, and scalable web architecture. A published author of two books and a former founder, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on systems design and operational rigor. Based in Austin, he balances technical leadership with a personable side as a stay-at-home cat dad, showing an ability to stay grounded while shipping large-scale services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
A simple HMAC-cookie based session handler implementation for PHP 5.4's SessionHandlerInterface
Contributions:72 commits, 6 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 5 months
session-storephp-5phpsession-handlermysqli
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Stephen Corona - Chief Technology Officer at Blockit