Steve Schwartz
CTO, Co-founder at Alfa Jango
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Schwartz is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and engineer with two decades of software development experience who now advises startups and consults for small businesses from Ann Arbor. He co-founded and served as CTO at multiple startups—most recently building CircNova’s AI platform for designing circular RNA therapeutics and previously scaling Genomenon from idea to a 150-person, multi-million-dollar-funded company that acquired Boston Genetics and a cancer knowledge base. Steve blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (notably significant contributions to widely used Rails/JQuery projects and open-source plugins with hundreds of millions of downloads) with executive product and fundraising leadership. He runs Alfa Jango to help early-stage teams ship MVPs quickly using lean methods, and continues investing, speaking, and advising on AI, biotech, and developer-centric product strategy. An engineer by training in mechanical and electrical disciplines, he brings a systems-thinking approach to bridging research-grade AI and production-grade software.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Kettering University
German
Github Skills (28)
ajax10
git10
sequel10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
event-handling10
jquery10
plugin-development10
package-development10
wordpress10
rails10
ruby10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
file-upload10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alfajango/jquery-dynatable
Jul 2011 - Feb 2019
A more-fun, semantic, alternative to datatables
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:149 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Steve appears to be the primary developer, responsible for creating a jQuery plugin called Dynatable to replace Datatables. The user implemented core functionalities, including AJAX data loading, in-table sorting, pagination, and search features. The user also handled user input, implemented pushState for browser history, and made various optimizations and bug fixes to the plugin.
datatablessemantic
rails/jquery-ujs
Nov 2010 - Apr 2014
Ruby on Rails unobtrusive scripting adapter for jQuery
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:131 commits, 16 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily contributed to the implementation of unobtrusive scripting features for the Ruby on Rails framework within the jQuery-ujs repository. Their work involved adding event binding namespaces, enhancing the handling of remote interactions, and addressing issues related to form submissions, including handling of data-disable-with and data-remote attributes. Further, they added event callbacks and fixed bugs related to these interactions, demonstrating a focus on refining the adapter's functionality.
ruby-on-railsscriptingunobtrusivejqueryrails
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