Stephen Whitenstall
Community Governance Oversight at Self-employed
Oldham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Whitenstall is a governance and quality-assurance specialist with three decades of experience organizing academic, community and business projects and nine years focused in the Catalyst/Cardano ecosystem. He founded QA-DAO and currently leads Community Governance Oversight and Catalyst Swarm support, combining hands-on GitBook documentation, technical project management and open-source maintenance. His background includes Program Test Management at IBM and QA leadership at BNP Paribas, where he applied CMM principles and led multi-platform audits and migrations. Stephen is notable for translating grassroots community facilitation—stemming from peer-led homelessness advocacy and arts-led practice—into rigorous, auditable governance processes. He helped secure funding for QA-DAO’s proposals within Project Catalyst and continues to publish detailed governance and auditability artifacts that bridge community practice with enterprise QA. Based in Oldham, England, he brings a rare mix of philosophical training, practical QA discipline and community-first stewardship to decentralized governance.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, First Class Honours, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy, First Class Honours at The Open University
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Github Skills (39)
seed10
dao10
nft10
beehive9
solidity9
gitbook9
catalyst9
co-ordination9
ethereum9
cardano9
react8
composable8
gitlab8
plutus7
tailwindcss7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stephen-rowan/Cardano-ADA-Reference
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Cardano NFT DAO Draft Documentation
Contributions:2 PRs, 472 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
cardanoadablockchainplutusnft
Catalyst-Circle/Catalyst-Prioritized-Problems
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
The repository for Catalyst Circle Co-ordination
Contributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 7 months
catalystco-ordination
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