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Markus Stefanko

CTO, Software Architect, Maker

HQ

  • 🇹🇭 Thailand 2011-2018
  • 🇪🇸 Spain 2009-2011
  • 🇩🇰 Denmark 2003-2009
  • 🇩🇪 Germany 1990-2003
  • 🇵🇱 Poland 1983-1990

Languages

  • 🇺🇸 English Professional
  • 🇩🇪 German Native
  • 🇵🇱 Polish Native
  • 🇩🇰 Danish Basic
  • 🇪🇸 Spanish Basic
  • 🇫🇷 French Basic
  • 🇹🇭 Thai Basic

Interests

Career Profile

I have been working with startups in all possible industries for the past 15 years. From humble beginnings in eSports communities, to design agencies, banking, mobile gaming, travel tech, fintech and finally SaaS platforms.

I’m currently based on 🏝 Koh Samui, and am exclusively interested in 🖥 remote-only positions.

Positions I’m interested in : CTO, VP of Engineering, Chief Architect, Director of Cloud Infrastructure, VP of Product Engineering

Experiences ( Highlights )

Founder, CTO

2014 - Present
📈 pitchXO, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong

Developed a Virtual Data Rooms platform which helped customers raise over $100 million. Unique value proposition is understandable “big data” approach - know who views the contents of documents, and when. Sending immediate actionable reports.

First stage efforts were in developing the platform from a manual WordPress approach, to a full-standing SaaS that automatically deploys Docker instances for clients.

Later on integrations with popular enterprise platforms.

  • 👨‍💼 3 Developers, 3 Staff
  • 🐳 Docker
  • 🔬 Microservices
  • 🔥 Firebase
  • 🐗 Angular
  • 🐢 node.js
  • 🐘 PHP

Game Developer, Founder

2017 - Present
👾 Space Mages, 🇹🇭 Koh Samui

Created a whole cloud-based automation pipeline porting a massive ⚡ SWF based codebase into Haxe ( HTML5, Native, Mobile ) compatible code, that was then automatically committed to the main repository based on compilation tests. Work on this ranged from SWF bytecode transpilation to AWS Batch processing within thousands of simultaneous Docker containers.

  • 👨‍💼 Team of 8 developers + open source devs
  • 🐳 Docker
  • 🔬 Microservices
  • 🔥 Firebase
  • 🔸 Haxe
  • 🍏 Objective C
  • ☕️ Java
  • ☁️ AWS CodeBuild, Batch, CodePipeline, Lambda
  • ⚡ SWF Transpilation
  • 🐿 HTML5 / Webpack
  • 📱 Mobile Targets
  • 🐘 PHP

Head Integration Engineer & Enterprise Architect

2009 - 2012
✈️ Everbread, 🇬🇧 London

Right hand of the CTO. Built an ITA competitor ( acquired by Google, 5 years ) within 9 months. Remote teams, APAC clients, Enterprise Architecture, Travel Tech.

  • 👨‍💼 Team of 10-25 Developers, 30 Staff
  • 🐨 Atlassian Suite
  • 🐍 Python
  • 🐘 PHP

CTO, Founder

2003 - 2009
🕹 ESNation A/S, 🇩🇰 Copenhagen

Founded MeetYourMakers - a world-class e-sports team winning championships around the world. Built an online community portal for gamers from scratch and grew it to 1.4 million registered users.

  • 👨‍💼 Team of 4 Developers, 12 Staff, 100 Players, 750 Volunteers
  • 🐘 PHP
  • 🐬 MySQL
  • 🕹 eSports

Experiences ( Chronological )

Founder, CTO

2014 - Present
📈 pitchXO, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong

Director

2014 - Present
🖥 stefanXO, 🇭🇰 Hong Kong

Game Developer, Founder

2017 - Present
👾 Space Mages, 🇹🇭 Koh Samui

CTO

2016 - 2017
👾 SaaS Builders, 🇩🇰 Copenhagen

Head Integration Engineer & Enterprise Architect

2009 - 2012
✈️ Everbread, 🇬🇧 London

Solutions Architect

2009 - 2009
💸 Hello Group A/S, 🇩🇰 Copenhagen

CTO, Founder

2003 - 2009
🕹 ESNation A/S, 🇩🇰 Copenhagen

Open Source Projects

Most of these projects are open source, or have the source available upon download.

🐞 Firebug Lite for Google Chrome
25,000 weekly users
Maintaining the old Firebug Lite port for newer Chrome versions.
📑 Tab Manager Plus for Google Chrome
5,000 weekly users
The best Tab Manager for Chrome. Quickly find open tabs, see all windows in one view, find duplicates and limit tabs per window.
☁️ Amazon AWS Quick links
500 weekly users
A simple extension to remember the AWS resources you recently accessed, and to quickly open new tabs with AWS resources you want to visit.
🍪 Dropdown List of Most Visited Links
500 weekly users
Chrome extension giving the user quick access to his most visited links within a dropdown.
🤖 Chrome User Script Handler
500 weekly users
Allows users to execute user script within the browser. Port for newer Chrome versions to fix new security model.
⚾️ BaseBall Scoreboard
350 weekly users
A MLB based BaseBall Scoreboard for newer Chrome versions.
🍥 Simple Reddit
100 weekly users
A Reddit re-design re-design.
🤖 AS3HX Online Converter
Converts AS3 ( Flash ) code online to Haxe.
🏬 itembase Go Api
A Go (golang) REST client library for the itembase API

Other Contributions and Projects

Projects I have contributed to over the years

🤓 I ❤️ Data Bangkok Meetup
Co-Founded a 1300 members group of Data Enthusiasts, with 7 meetups ranging from 40-250 attendees
❤️ DREAM BIG / Virgin Unite Fundraiser
Co-Organized the DREAM BIG / Virgin Unite fundraiser with Sir Richard Branson and Morten Lund in Copenhagen. In total we raised over 100,000 EUR at the event, which were additionally matched by Virgin Unite.
🍻 Bits & Bretzels 2015
Spoke in front of 3,000 Entrepreneurs at the Bits & Pretzels 2015 event in Munich
🐀 Go Anti-Patterns
Why os.IsExist(err) != !os.IsNotExist(err) - an important anti-pattern in golang
⚡️ AMF.js - AMF transpiler in Node
Contributed to the AMF transpilation package, which allows you to export binary ActionScript data into javascript objects.
🐢 node-google-spreadsheet
Contributed to the package in reducing the memory footprint for massive sheets - and also to allow controling of your sheets through AWS Lambda.

Skills & Proficiency

🐘 PHP

🐿 HTML5 & CSS

🐳 Docker

🐢 node.js

🔥 Firebase

🐗 Angular

🐬 MySQL

🔸 Haxe

⚡ SWF Bytecode

🐀 Go