Summary
Stephen Hiehn is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building web and mobile systems, now based in Vancouver and currently at Xero. He blends product-focused engineering roles across startups and scale-ups—Ritual.co, CTO.ai, okio—and hands-on creator work with Signals & Sorcery, an audio sample production/distribution pipeline he built and published. His background spans front-end, back-end and mobile development, informed by formal training in web development and earlier studies in jazz and classical performance, which surfaces in his interdisciplinary approach to tooling and media. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions in agile teams, he pairs a musician’s attention to craft with a developer’s focus on reliable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Humber College
Jazz & Classical music performance, Jazz & Classical music performance at Mohawk College