Summary
Stephen Shen is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade and a half of software development experience and eight years in senior leadership roles, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Operto in Vancouver. He combines hands-on mobile and backend engineering roots—spanning iOS/Android, PHP/MySQL, and cloud deployments—with strategic leadership in scaling SaaS products for enterprise customers. As Co-Founder and CTO of MuseFind he built a venture-backed influencer-marketing platform used by Fortune 500 brands, blending product-facing engineering with go-to-market collaboration. Stephen has a track record of shipping high-download consumer apps and porting complex legacy systems to modern stacks, and he mentors teams to adopt agile practices and robust testing. Comfortable operating at both code and executive levels, he excels at derisking acquisitions and aligning technical roadmaps to business outcomes. Based in Vancouver and trained in Computer Systems Technology at BCIT, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a pragmatic, customer-first engineering mindset.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)