# Steven (@stvn.sh)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/stvn.sh
Headline: Fractional and embedded engineer & leader for organizations up to 100 engineers. 

## About

I make delivery problems visible and reshape the systems that cause them: team structure, information flow, incentives, invisible friction, bottlenecks.

## Experience

- **Engineering Lead at Quandoo** (2018 – 2020)
- **Tech Lead Front-end Infrastructure at ResearchGate** (2016 – 2018)
- **Chief Technology Officer at Recarb** (2023 – 2024)
  As Chief Technology Officer at recarb, I built out the technology function, and together with my team, validated various hypotheses, built prototypes and represented us at industry conferences.
- **Director of Engineering at Cuculus** (2024 – 2025)
- **Engineerinrg Manager at SmartRecruiters** (2021 – 2023)
- **Owner at stvn.sh** (2025 – present)
  I lead engineering organizations by making work visible and reshaping the systems around teams, so that delivery problems become solvable rather than chronic. With over 20 years across interfaces, APIs, and platforms, I've worked in environments where organizational complexity makes flow genuinely hard: regulated industries, distributed teams, layered architectures. I bring DevOps principles and organizational thinking into places where they're most needed
  and least established.

## Skills

- TypeScript
- Technical Leadership
- Recruiting
- TypeScript
- React
- Domain Driven Design
- GraphQL
- Recruiting
- Performance Management
- Organization Design
- Technical Leadership
- Node.js
- Systems Design
- PHP

## Publications

- You’re not “AI Native”. — letters-from-the-edge-of-chaos.pckt.blog (https://letters-from-the-edge-of-chaos.pckt.blog/youre-not-ai-native-exu048c)
- Elon Musk is stealing your retirement. — letters-from-the-edge-of-chaos.pckt.blog (https://letters-from-the-edge-of-chaos.pckt.blog/elon-musk-is-stealing-your-retirement-sb3bz85)
- Programming Still Sucks. — letters-from-the-edge-of-chaos.pckt.blog (https://letters-from-the-edge-of-chaos.pckt.blog/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp)

## Languages

- German (professional_working)
- English (native)
- Dutch (native)