Steve Strates
Founder at Funqtion
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Strates is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed, real-time systems—primarily in Elixir/Phoenix—and running a boutique agency serving brands like Citizen Watches and Bulova. He combines an academic background in AI and cognitive science from the University of Toronto (when neural nets were still niche) with hands-on product engineering, having been an early engineer at Scruff and Jack'd. Steve has shipped production systems for enterprises like DHL and Quest Diagnostics and now runs Funqtion, a queer event discovery platform in NYC with 40K monthly users. He favors infrastructure work—both technical and cultural—building resilient backends, KPI-driven product experiments, and cross-functional teams. Comfortable across mobile and web stacks, he translates research-informed thinking into scalable, user-facing products. An uncommon blend of cognitive science training and practical systems design informs his approach to AI and Elixir integration.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science Cognitive Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (106)
mobile-development10
app-framework10
deezer10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
bass10
react10
source-separation10
react-native-web9
audio-processing9
tailwindcss9
liveview8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
perrystreetsoftware/CreditCardEntry
Nov 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
creditregexcredit-cardsupportedandroid
guess/hypem
Feb 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 8 years 1 month
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