Stephen Haney
Founder at Paper
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Haney is a founder and seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience building developer-focused design tools and scalable e-commerce platforms. He co-founded Modulz (acquired by WorkOS) and shipped influential open-source projects like Radix and Stitches that shaped React UI patterns, then led product engineering at WorkOS before founding Paper to pursue design-first tooling. His background spans hands-on engineering, architecture, and people leadership—running platform migrations, headless commerce proofs-of-concept, and high-impact marketing campaigns that drove measurable revenue gains. Stephen blends product intuition with deep frontend expertise, routinely teaching and mentoring engineers through workshops and whiteboarding to raise team craft. Comfortable equally in startup and enterprise contexts, he combines VC-backed startup experience with practical delivery at scale. Based in Irvine, CA, he’s quietly focused on making beautiful design systems accessible without code.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Science, Business Administration, Associate in Science, Business Administration at Santa Rosa Junior College
Stackoverflow
642reputation
55kreached
6answers
17questions
Github Skills (200)
ui-components10
magenta10
component-library10
radix-ui10
mission-control10
css10
user-interface10
alt-tab10
frontend10
near10
declarative10
tonejs10
window-manager10
radix10
stitches10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
StephenHaney/dear-diary-ai
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Turn your journal into music, winner in the Magenta/Gray Area ML Music Hackathon
Contributions:86 commits, 33 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 8 months
pythonmusic-generationmagenta-jsjournalmagenta
StephenHaney/Swift-Custom-Events
Jul 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
cocoapodsbackboneios-developmentevent-listenersswift
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