Steven Gehrman
Chief Executive Officer at Cocoatech
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Gehrman is a veteran software founder and CEO with over two decades of experience shipping influential Mac and cross-platform applications, from Final Draft (the industry-standard screenwriting tool) to Path Finder, a long-running Finder replacement. Based in San Francisco, he now leads Distant Future Corp building Flutter mobile, desktop, and web apps, while continuing to steer Cocoatech and draw on deep macOS/Cocoa expertise. Equally comfortable as an individual contributor and executive, he has a hands-on engineering pedigree—contributing to open-source Flutter projects like a popular YouTube player plugin—and a track record of architecting cross-platform C++ and Rails systems. Notably, his career blends product-driven entrepreneurship with low-level platform hacking (once “hacking” iTunes to deliver social features), demonstrating rare fluency across native, web, and blockchain stacks.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at TCU
Github Skills (11)
ios10
flutter-game10
android10
flutter-apps10
flutter10
fixest9
webview9
android-webview9
findbugs9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
sarbagyastha/youtube_player_flutter
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
A Flutter plugin for inline playback or streaming of YouTube videos using the official iFrame Player API.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the Flutter-based YouTube player plugin by fixing bugs and addressing linting errors. They modified the player's core components, including the `YoutubePlayer`, `RawYoutubePlayer`, and related widgets like `TouchShutter` and `PlayPauseButton`. The commits also involved example code updates, improving code quality and addressing issues related to fullscreen mode, which indicates an effort to enhance the player's functionality.
android-youtube-playeriframevideosyoutubevideo-player
StellarKit/stellarkit-client-web
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:588 commits, 552 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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